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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...
First-year students could still choose their rooming blocks, so they would not be entirely isolated in their new houses. As added consolation, the administration should increase the maximum size of rooming blocks to 20 and allow greater flexibility in transfers among houses...
...proponents of maximum diversity and full randomization believe that the current system "breeds intolerance and fear and sometimes even loathing," then why don't they call for next fall's randomization of every Harvard student--not just first-years? Or what about randomized rooming groups? These bold and obviously unpopular proposals seem consistent with the editors' desire for a homogenized housing system...
...There are a lot of people that agree that itis a pretty good compromise, but we all realizethat it is a compromise," Lowell House MasterWilliam H. Bossert '59 said. "Non-ordered choicedoes not give us either maximum choice or totallydiverse houses...
...Because we played Providence and Jacksonville tough, we may have thought we're above a team like Harvard," UNH Coach Jim Boylan said. "We may have thought we don't have to give maximum effort. We payed for it tonight. We couldn't catch the ball, we couldn't pass the ball, we couldn't shoot the ball, we missed numerous free throws and our defense was atrocious...