Word: jewett
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...students gathered to protest a decision by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 last week to randomize the housing lottery. Under the new system, students will from blocking groups of up to 16, enter the lottery and be assigned randomly to one of the 12 undergraduate houses...
...Although Jewett has emphasized that this decision could be changed after students try it for a few years, his appointed successor, Harry R. Lewis '68, has repeatedly said he supports randomization of the houses...
After the outside protest, about 100 students filed up the south steps of University Hall into Room 4 in order to present to Jewett a petition with 1,000 signatures against randomization. The dean was not in University Hall to receive the document, however. He was attending a meeting of the Administrative Board, as he does every Tuesday afternoon...
Reached at his home last night, Jewett said he could say little about the substance of the rally because he was not there. He said he looked forward to meeting with some randomization opponents later this week...
...installed, Mr. Jewett's neighborhood will prove to be a fractured farce, a false construction imposed on a University that otherwise grants its students a great deal of freedom. The residents of this community thoroughly detest the new arrangement, in part because they realize the impossibility of the desired outcome. By randomizing the houses in such a hostile environment, Dean Jewett has dismissed undergraduate protest as immature self-interest. Randomization, the Great Leap Forward for the social engineers here, should be revoked...