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...first, the committee voted to reduce the maximum student blocking group size from 20 to 16. We support this new compromise to the extent that it heads off the masters' continuing push for randomization. But we question whether it will truly increase house diversity...
House masters originally supported a plan that would have reduced maximum group size to eight, in an effort to make house composition more random. The change would promote diversity by preventing 18 football players, 18 computer hackers, or 18 pre-meds from landing in a single house and upsetting house balance...
Label billed the 16-person maximum as a compromise between the masters' view and students' desire to keep the present 20-person upper limit...
Associate Dean of Harvard College Thomas A. Dingman '67 said the change in the maximum blocking group could be perceived as a small move toward randomization in housing...
Dingman agreed the debate is not likely to stop, despite the 16-person maximum compromise...