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...current system of house assignment breeds intolerance, fear and sometimes even loathing. A Crimson poll of undergraduates last year indicated that few students believed they could live comfortably at any of the 12 houses. By allowing students to choose the type of living environment they want, the current maximum first choice system makes everybody suffer...
...numbers verify that house stereotypes are not just a figment of administrative imagination. They show a strong correlation between the house in which students live and their grade point average and honors graduation...
...more fundamentally, non-ordered choice will fail because it will allow students who would ordinarily not live in the stereotyped houses to continue to avoid them. After all, a perennially popular first-choice house is "Anywhere but Adams, Eliot or Kirkland...
This is not a plea for Harvard to babysit us. It is a plea that the administrators recognize us as adults capable of improving the community in which we live. Commencement speakers say we will leave Harvard to change the world. I wanted to change Harvard first, because for four years it was my world, and because it needed changing...
Only the first few hours were televised live, with the rest shown on tape yesterday evening. However, deputies voted later not to allow Soviet TV to air any debates on ethnic issues after speakers touched on the explosive conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis that has led to an estimated 200 deaths and hundreds of thousands of refugees in the last two years...