Word: percents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endorsing 100 percent randomization, the staff wraps itself recklessly in the banner of "diversity," carelessly applying a heavy-handed solution. It sacrifices the principle that a free, educated community can and should direct itself toward its own ideals--gradually if need be--for the illusion that tolerance can be manufactured virtually overnight, externally. For the sake of the symbolism of total randomization, it also sweeps aside serious problems with that plan...
Indeed, proponents of 100 percent randomization do not claim to offer a cure-all for Harvard's problems of inequality; instead they implicitly argue broadly that randomization will give symbolic stature to the College's commitment to diversity...
According to the data, 67 percent of the students in one upperclass house are athletes, while in another, 48 percent of the residents graduated from private secondary schools. This isn't to say that all athletes fit one particular stereotype. It merely confirms the obvious: that they share a strong and exclusive commonality...
Surprisingly, the plan has also received the backing of the masters--despite the fact that a smaller majority of masters would prefer a 100 percent random lottery. A sincere concern is that the masters have compromised too much...
...Crimson's shooting was no better, as Harvard nailed only 37 percent of its shots from the field. Turnarounds in the lane missed the basket, shots had no rotation and three-pointers failed to reach the basket. At least Harvard--entering the game shooting only 64 percent from the foul line--nailed a respectable 69 percent of its freebies last night...