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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their second choice. Similarly, people who really want to live in Eliot would be able to make Winthrop or Kirkland their real second-choice. Unscientific polls by The Crimson would not be unnecessary; nobody would have to try to second-guess the popularity of a house. Nobody would list a house that was really his ninth choice as his second choice...
MANY PEOPLE before me have suggested that the ideal way to run the lottery would be to assign numbers to rooming scanned. The people in rooming group 330 know that if they list Adams as their second choice, it too will be full by the time everybody in the class has been consulted, and they will again be dropped to the bottom of the list. Instead, they list Dunster, in hopes that nobody listed Dunster as a "first choice house" and that space will be available when the program comes back to them...
...program should be altered, however, to allow freshmen to list all 13 houses in order of preference. The computer should then come to rooming group 330, see that although Lowell is full second-choice Adams still has space, and assign the roommates to that house. If Adams is full, consult the group's third, fourth, fifth choices, etc. until an open house is found...
...this system, the people with the best numbers get the houses they want. That's only natural. The people with the best numbers get the best housing in any lottery system. That's why it's called a lottery. And certainly the people at the very bottom of the list will get screwed. But then again, the people at the bottom of the list always get screwed, no matter what system is used...
Before the tickets went on sale, a list was circulated for people waiting indoors to keep track of the line's order. At 1:10 p.m., the 25 people who had waited inside since 9 a.m. got their chance to buy tickets. Within 40 minutes, more than 320 of the 4000 seats available for the weekend's action had been sold...