Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes in response to a disturbing editorial written by Joshua A. Kaufman ('All Pfucked Up," Dartboard, Apr. 8 1995) regarding campus housing. Mr. Kaufman embodies the very racism and ignorance that cause so many Black students to seek company amongst themselves. To describe the Quad as a ghetto merely because a larger proportion of Black Students resides there blatantly reveals the fact that racism is still a prevent force on this campus. The denotation of ghetto is a neighborhood dominated by some ethnic minority group. the fact of the matter is that whites and Asians far outnumber any group...
Kaufman implies that Black students flock to the Quad only to be around other Blacks. He implies that Blacks choose to segregate them selves, which in turn will cause hostile racial housing areas. This argument is clearly ridiculous. I once thought that Kaufman, and people like him, did not think that black students simply wanted to live amongst friends who happened to be Black. This is the same reason why white students here choose to live where they live. They want to be around friends, who usually are white. Yet, I believe that Kaufman realizes the truth of this point...
Membership at the Coop is a pretty good deal, the Quad isn't really that far away, heterosexuals too live at Adams, and the Harvard Football Team is pretty good...
...fact, randomization already exists at Harvard but has proven ineffective in ensuring diversity in students' social relations. Harvard first-years have no choice in the assignment of their dorms and of their roommates, but that does not stop many minority students from seeking to live in the Quad in their sophomore year--nor does it halt the less noticeable ties that lead many other students to seek out those with whom they share a common background...
...current system ensures that the vast majority of students live in one of their top choices. The lottery usually allows students who seek the quiet and expanse of the Quad or the proximity and bustle of the river to determine where they want to live. And to the extent that administrators worry about house composition, the current system prevents any one house from becoming too homogeneous...