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...Jewett has said that any changes will not beimplemented until the lottery for the Class of1997
Members of the committee met yesterday with Elizabeth S, Nathans, dean of first-year students, and with Dean of College L. Fred Jewett '57 to discuss the recommendations made by the committee report, titled, "An Assessment of the Freshman Experience at Harvard/Radcliffe College...
...report submitted to Nathans and Jewett, suggests solutions to problems "most pressing to freshmen at Harvard...
...discussing how the house system can be improved, information is being collected on house composition, surveys are being taken to find out what the students really want and the council is listening to it all. The council has taken the opportunity to advise Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 and the Committee on House Life of the best way to improve the housing lottery. The position I have advocated on the council as co-chair of the residential committee is a compromise which will allow students more choice, yet will maintain the heterogeneity of the houses...
After examining this data, the masters and the administration decided that the houses assignment system, which allowed students to rank their top three house choices, needed to be revised so that house composition would be made more diverse. A majority of the masters, along with Jewett (who makes final decisions about the house assignment system), favored randomization. Randomization, they believed, would prevent a homogeneous group of students from inhabiting a house...