Word: microcosms
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Lewis also argues that the Yard dorms comprise a "microcosm" where universal key-card access has failed to guard first-years from intruders; therefore, having universal access would in fact not resolve the issue of "strangers" intruding. But Lewis fails to see that if universal key-card access were implemented, the question we'd ask would no longer be "How do I know you go to Harvard...
...three intruders mentioned had gained entrance to first-year dormitories, and universal key card access to those dormitories is already a fact of life first-years. As upperclass students have no need for very easy access to the first-year dormitories, it seems that the dormitories already constitute a microcosm of what we might expect to happen if universal key card access were instituted for the whole College. On that basis, these incidents actually lead one to the opposite conclusion, that universal access will not make students more likely to challenge persons trying to gain entrance...
...opposite extremes of today's health-care debate. Bedford Regional has eagerly embraced managed care and linked itself to a statewide hospital chain. County-owned Dunn is sticking to an almost Norman Rockwell vision of traditional health care. The hospital war being waged nationally is taking place here in microcosm; it is at institutions like Dunn that traditional medicine may be making its last stand...
...force is 23% black, and so are four of its 22 top executives. Group president for consumer and small-business services Bruce Gordon, a black executive who has been with the company for 29 years, denies there is any consciously discriminatory policy. But he said, "Bell Atlantic is a microcosm of society, and I have to assume there are race-based incidents at Bell Atlantic." In fact, most companies of any size now have diversity policies in place. Yet these have not alleviated all racial strains in the workplace. Even at a place like NYNEX--consistently ranked among the "best...
Randomization has a history dating back to the 1920s, when President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, wrote that an unfortunate segregation would result from students being able to choose their own houses. Lowell envisioned each house as a microcosm of the College, and not as small, separate institutions with their own identities...