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...long-time alliance between Blacks and Jews (an erosion I do not have the time or space to get into here). I have been the target of intolerant behavior from both groups, and find distasteful in the extreme any measure of intolerance from a member of an oppressed group; needless to say, I have many days when I despair of social harmony. Still, it is precisely because I am at bedrock an optimist that I am writing this letter, and because it is in my best vested interest that a rapport between Jews and Blacks once again flourish. Editorials such...
Unfortunately, the current housing system--a leftover of a bygone era in which interviews with house masters determined house assignments--seems designed to inhibit the very diversity that Harvard so proudly advertises. The current method of assigning housing perpetuates stereotypes, creates needless anxiety among already overstressed freshmen, and distracts them from realizing the crucial importance of finding the best roommates they can, regardless of house choice...
This year's decision to disclose lottery numbers before rooming forms are due is a step in the right direction because it stresses roommate choice above house choice. Nevertheless, the only way to avoid encouraging parochialism and needless anxiety is an entirely random process for placing rooming groups in houses. A random housing lottery would not stop students from self-selecting into groups of friends with shared interests and attitudes. Nor should it. But by diminishing the importance of stereotypes, a random lottery would help to eliminate hostility and disdain between people with different attitudes and lifestyles...
...tragic result of our society, and would hope that our nation will continue to focus creative energies to solve the problem. My fear is that a great number of students do not share that concern, but regard the issue as a case of media overkill that is a needless burden on the Leverett students...
...idea most prevalent among those interviewed was that Lennon had died a needless, wasteful death, and that his murderer had deprived the world of a great creative force