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...JUST like trying to nail Jello to a tree, it is difficult to pin down the argument against randomization. In one instant, opponents of randomization contend that the house system is just fine as it is: "We're all diverse here." And in the next instant, they anxiously plead against a system that a could land them in--God forbid--Adams or Kirkland...
...With a man like Kasparov, the guy doesn't make mistakes," he said. Edelman hopes that Harvard players can use the time constraints of the event to their advantage...
...tricky thing about pinning down opponents of randomization is that they tend to do what lawyers call "arguing by alternative." It's like defending a client accused of stealing a car and denting the fender by saying, "The fender isn't dented, and if it is, my client didn't steal the car, and if he did, the fender was dented before he stole...
...case of athletes in Kirkland House, it hurts non-athletes in Kirkland who feel uncomfortable with their surroundings. It hurts athletes who lose the chance to live in a maximally diverse house. It hurts students who would otherwise like to live in Kirkland, but who are discouraged by the stereotype. And it hurts students in other houses who might miss the chance to share a house with athletes...
...house system is important. Few things amuse me as much as Yardlings who insist that house life doesn't matter. (Especially when those same students quake at the prospect of living in Adams of Eliot.) Like it or not, Harvard's campus-wide social life is insignificant in relation to house life...