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Take Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, for example. Graced with a last name that sends thrills up the spines of Beacon Hill genealogists, Jewett in his baggy suits and rumpled neckties looks the part of the Ivy League administrator. Jewett is so Harvard, in fact, (you should learn to start using the University's name as an adjective) that some say he hasn't been away from the Yard for more than a week and a half since he enrolled here 37 years...
...might not think Jewett the sort who would buck tradition. But lately, he has done just that, spearheading efforts to change Harvard's annual housing lottery to make the system more random. Last year, he raised cries for blood among first-year students by pushing through a system of "nonordered choice" in which rising sophomores are randomly assigned to one of the four upperclass Houses they select on their housing form...
Another way Jewett has endeared himself to undergraduates is by serving as head of the Administrative Board, which disciplines students guilty of "conduct unbecoming a Harvard student...
...council, led by James M. Harmon '93--who proposed a plan of "controlled choice"--was able to forge a compromise with Jewett and the house masters...
...should have looked for a system that promoted the most student choice but instead we looked for a system that was most acceptable to the [house] masters and Dean Jewett," says the council's Residential Chair Daniel H. Tabak '92 who authored a rival plan the council dismissed...