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Rushing to respond to the College's plan to randomize the house assignment lottery, the Undergraduate Council's residential committee appears increasingly likely to back a compromise proposal of "non-ordered choice," committee members said this week...
...council leaders' haste to respond has unsettled former total-choice advocates on the committee, who say the quick endorsement of the plan is stifling debate and represents a capitulation to the perceived hard-line stance of Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett...
...dean, who early this fall promised to implement at least 50 percent randomization into the lottery, said Monday he finds the non-ordered choice proposal an "interesting idea." The dean this week passed the proposal on to University statisticians, who are evaluating how well the plan would diversify the houses...
...plan, first introduced by committee Vice Chair James M. Harmon '93, allows first-year student rooming groups to list four, unranked houses into which groups would be randomly assigned. Only if all four choices were filled before a rooming group's turn would students be randomly assigned to a remaining house...
...start with, the mortgage interest deduction has the National Association of Realtors (NAR), one of the richest and most powerful lobbies in the nation, steadfastly behind it. When former Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan's tax reform plan proposed eliminating the the mortgage interest deduction for vacation homes, NAR president David Roberts denounced it as a prescription for "less growth in the American standard of living and a lower quality of life...