Word: orly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IMAGINE a Harvard Commencement at which one house graduates no summas. Picture another house which graduates no varsity hockey, football or basketball players. And a third which graduates fewer than a dozen Blacks.
And as council member Joel Kaplan '91 of Eliot House put it, "Segregation, voluntary or involuntary, accentuates differences and breeds intolerance."
Under non-ordered choice, students would be randomly assigned to one of three or four house preferences.
Non-ordered choice is clearly not the solution. Statistics prepared by Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, indicated that the proposal might take the edge off of some stereotypes, but Whitla relied on data from last year's lottery in which first-year students...
But 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."