Word: jewett
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Indeed, the opinions Jewett has been waiting for are not unimportant; they are the results of major polls of the student body by both the Independent and the Undergraduate Council. These survey results were released only in the past few days, and no other randomization survey of the kind has been conducted in at least a year. It is thus understandable that the dean has delayed his decision until...
...been several months now since Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 indicated that the fate of the housing lottery system was up in the air--again...
Early this semester, the debate ended and the campus awaited Dean Jewett's decision. In his final year as Dean of the College, Jewett has indicated that he may end non-ordered choice, the five-year-old compromise plan that he had hailed just two years earlier as providing a reasonable balance between calls for diversity and choice...
...conventional wisdom is that Jewett will move toward full randomization of the housing lottery process in defiance of the opinions of the vast majority of students. The Harvard Independent's recent poll found over 80 percent of students in favor of some choice in the housing lottery compared to only 11 percent of students in favor of randomization. Several weeks ago, more than 190 students signed on to an online petition calling for the preservation of the current system...
While there is widespread speculation that the lottery will change, Jewett has repeatedly delayed his decision on the future of the housing lottery, saying only that he is still gathering opinions from various sources...