Word: jewett
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...qualm of Jewett, administrators and House masters with the current arrangement is that it permits a range of self-segregation: athletes comprise an inordinate proportion of Mather and Kirkland; Asians dominate Quincy House; various Quad houses have percentages of Black students above their relative numbers in the College; and the Eliot-Winthrop-Kirkland grouping has come to be known as the "White Triangle...
...within the present structure, each person chooses to live amongst people with whom he or she feels most comfortable. It is a fairly utilitarian compromise that satisfies most students and even the majority of House masters. Jewett's opinion alone is dictating campus policy, at least in this instance. Yet this diversity by flat won't fail for its undesirability alone. The goals of randomization are unfeasible...
...decision he has made is unpopular, Jewett concedes. So his conclusion must therefore derive from some false notion of leadership, a quality incumbent to effective administration but which, in this case, has been applied in a misguided manner. For randomization will have little effect on campus diversity. It will simply splinter groups that otherwise lack common meeting places...
Student's opposition to Dean Jewett's eleventh-hour decision has been conveniently buried in the Reading Period crunch. So what can students do now to object to Jewett's decision to randomize the housing lottery system...
...Write a letter to Dean Jewett. Address the correspondence to 4 University Hall, Harvard College. (The University Mail system is free...