Word: jewett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While I can respect the College's right to disagree, I'm disappointed in the administration for the way in which this decision was made. It's not fair to argue that the administration simply doesn't care what students think. If Dean Jewett didn't care, he would have randomized the lottery many years...
...quite fair for the dean to wait until the end of the term to make his decision, when students are immersed in the drain of finals. If the retiring Jewett needed to wait so long to make the decision, it would have been better for him to allow his successor to make the decision in the fall, when there was time for students to voice their opposition...
...angry protesters showed yesterday, the lack of student protest prior to the decision did not reflect a general indifference to the issue. But it's difficult to organize a protest on a nonissue, and Jewett's announcement that he was reviewing a process that has more or less been continually reviewed for the past five years was not in itself a cause for alarm...
...timing of Dean Jewett's decision is wrong because it appears geared toward silencing student protest. Rather than facing a series of potentially escalating protests, the dean watches as his opponents leave for the summer two weeks later. When they return, tensions have cooled and there are new concerns at hand. And a new dean...
...Jewett's impending retirement suggests another wrinkle for conspiracy theorists to latch onto. Incoming Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 favors randomization of the housing lottery process. In fact, he endorsed it as co-chair of a faculty committee that reopened the debate on the housing lottery last fall. Isn't it just possible that the outgoing Jewett made the decision so that the incoming Lewis would not have to anger his students in the first year of his term? It's a classic maxim of The Prince for the ruler to separate himself from the executors of unpopular policies...