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Harvard has a responsibility to provide a diverse environment for its students. Dean Jewett has taken an important step in this direction with his decision concerning housing. However, certain unnamed majors have disproportionately high or low numbers of athletes, minorities, women, pre-meds and pre-laws. Since students spend much of their time in class, studying with classmates, etc., clearly the make-up of classes should also reflect the diversity of the College...
Well, I'd have to say I was pleasantly impressed by the 200 of my classmates who showed up to protest Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57's decision to randomize the housing lottery. My surprise is based on my expectations, and I didn't foresee any more students showing up for this protest than for that "Save Gina" rally a few weeks...
While I can respect the College's right to disagree, I'm disappointed in the administration for the way in which this decision was made. It's not fair to argue that the administration simply doesn't care what students think. If Dean Jewett didn't care, he would have randomized the lottery many years...
...quite fair for the dean to wait until the end of the term to make his decision, when students are immersed in the drain of finals. If the retiring Jewett needed to wait so long to make the decision, it would have been better for him to allow his successor to make the decision in the fall, when there was time for students to voice their opposition...
...angry protesters showed yesterday, the lack of student protest prior to the decision did not reflect a general indifference to the issue. But it's difficult to organize a protest on a nonissue, and Jewett's announcement that he was reviewing a process that has more or less been continually reviewed for the past five years was not in itself a cause for alarm...