Word: protesting
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...also writing letters to the Harvard Clubs in large cities, that talk about the good old days of segregation by class and clique, to evoke their nostalgia and to convince them to write to you in protest. After all, we think that the Class of 1999 should be able to have it as good as the Classes of '09, '29, and '89. Those were the days...
...also busy as bees typing our hearts out over the internet. There are hundreds of messages against randomization, and we had planned to send you a big, big e-mail about it, but it turns out that not many people here cared that much to sign the electronic protest. So we're working in other areas. We were also going to call your office every five minutes, for however long it took, until you changed your mind. But again, we're saving that bombshell for another day. And besides, we like your executive assistant. And she doesn't have anything...
Acting in blatant defiance of student opinion, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 last week formally announced his decision to randomize the housing lottery system. The outgoing dean's last significant action has inspired an almost unanimous protest from an undergraduate population as diverse as the Houses which Jewett would create. The consensus of the College community holds that such social engineering is neither desirable, nor effective. Randomization, therefore, should not be instituted...
...imposed on a University that otherwise grants its students a great deal of freedom. The residents of this community thoroughly detest the new arrangement, in part because they realize the impossibility of the desired outcome. By randomizing the houses in such a hostile environment, Dean Jewett has dismissed undergraduate protest as immature self-interest. Randomization, the Great Leap Forward for the social engineers here, should be revoked...
What of the substance? It could have gone worse, but not by much. Given America's sorry record of failing to seriously protest Moscow's brutal repression in Chechnya, it wasn't surprising that Yeltsin ignored Clinton's human-rights lecture. An internal matter, Yeltsin fumed at the press conference before asserting that the conflict had ended anyway -- a lie Clinton lamely let pass. As for the cash-starved Russians' desire to sell nuclear technology to Iran, the issue was referred to a commission, which may or may not resolve the question to Washington's satisfaction -- a good result, said...