Word: jewett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next week, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 will decide whether to completely randomize the first-year housing lottery...
...Jewett has said in the past that he leans toward a randomized system, but he has been willing to listen to a variety of proposals and points of view...
Although the debate has touched upon issues ofstudent choice, first-year stress and housecharacter, Jewett has said that his primary goalis creating a house system which represents thediverse population of the College...
...those lines. While the houses are hardly homogeneous, homogeneity is not the desired end. While each house should reflect the diversity of the Harvard community, each House should be a community of its own where students feel at home. Two years ago, the College reevaluated the lottery process and Jewett reaffirmed non-ordered choice as a workable compromise. However, at the behest of many house masters--who were never satisfied with the current system--the issue of randomization has risen once again...
...Jewett and the house masters will randomize the housing lottery unless students make their voices felt. When administrators first contemplated greater randomization seven years ago, more than 1200 first-years petitioned against it. So far this year, there has been some student protest--most recently in the form of an e-mail petition authored by Benjamin J. Torrance '95 who says he has submitted signatures of 190 students--but the activism of past years has not been there. Students who favor choice should make their voices heard, through petitions, e-mail and conversations with Dean Jewett and their house masters...