Word: jewett
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jewett and a growing number of followers say the current system--which maximizes student choice--has resulted in a housing situation that is unacceptable at a school which strives for diversity. They cite a growing bulk of evidence that several houses have skewed populations of varsity athletes, Asian-Americans and other minority groups, and they say such living arrangements foster stereotyes and prejudice...
Last spring Jewett was forced to withdraw a proposal to randomly assign 25 percent of the spaces in eight houses when several masters refused to participate in the experiment...
...this year the dean has repeatedly asserted his authority to override master's opinions if he sees the need. Both President Derek C. Bok and Dean of Faculty A. Michael Spence have said they will back whatever proposal Jewett makes to them...
...worry if a house gets to a situation where people are deterred from applying there because of perceptions that the population there would not welcome them," Jewett said in an interview this week. "The stereotypes are becoming more negative...
...leery of administrative attempts at the "social engineering" of residential life at Harvard, several masters say Jewett's proposal to randomly assign at least 50 percent of the spaces in all 12 houses is both unnecessary and futile. Such a move promises to make the houses more homogeneous and lessen their importance in the life of the College, they...