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...Jewett himself appears to have grown tired ofthe randomization debate. He did not return phonecalls to his office seeking comment for thisstory...
...February 1989, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 announced his plan to totally randomize each of Harvard's twelve upperclass houses...
...plan met with angry opposition from students. Within two weeks of the dean's announcement, M. Scott Meyer '92, then a first-year, gathered signatures from about 1,000 students protesting Jewett's proposal. And masters from Eliot, Winthrop, Lowell and Adams Houses all refused to have their houses randomized...
Under pressure, students and Jewett, who stillsays he has a "personal preference" forrandomization, found a compromise that was thenbilled as a "three-year experiment...
...Dean Jewett announced that just 25 percent of the freshman class would be randomized in order to increase diversity. In response, 1200 first-years signed a petition against the new policy, and Dean Jewett was forced to repeal...