Word: processes
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...COMPUTER MEMO reproduced in The Crimson last week indicates that College administrators have misled freshmen about the House assignment process. The memo states that the assignments are done by hand; the Administration has implied that the assignments are computerized. This discovery raises serious questions about the House assignment process and the credibility of the officials involved...
...each rooming group. But the crucial part of the housing lottery--the actual assignment--is completed and checked only by housing officials. This contradicts administrators' description of the housing procedure. Many students, having lost faith in the administrations' statements, may understandably suspect systematic official manipulation in this clandestine manual process...
Many students are now wondering whether administrators may be "misleading" them on other aspects of the housing process. Therefore, the Administration must not only remedy what is at least the potential for manipulation, but dispel these student suspicions. The House assignments, if they are still to be done manually, should be witnessed by members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. CHUL overseers would prevent any more "mistakes," the more suspicion of which has undermined the integrity of this supposedly random process and the deans associated with...
...student committee members are indeed chosen--at least indirectly--as representatives. At Rosovsky's request, the Educational Resources Group (ERG) elected these students from its ranks. ERG members, in turn, are elected yearly in the Houses. Conveniently ignoring this selection process, Rosovsky insists that students on the Core Committees should just express their ideas and not try to act as spokesmen for the student body. If Rosovsky just wanted random ideas, he could have bypassed ERG and picked the members arbitrarily...
EVEN IF ROSOVSKY persistently keeps the Core committee proceedings confidential, the departments' student panels would at least provide undergraduates with a channel for expressing their recommendations for the Core. The process could be facilitated by using the departmental student-faculty committees mandated by this year's Faculty reforms to oversee tutorials--for that purpose...