Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makes me a little uneasy that I may not behappy or that I may not end up where I wanted to"if there is a random element in the system, shesaid...
...assume diversity is the motivation for the new system results in contradiction. Eliot, Adams, and Winthrop have refused to participate in the random lottery. Eliot and Adams suffer from the strongest stereotypes, and if the University wanted to ensure diversity in the house system, all of the houses must be required to participate. So the relatively diverse houses become more diverse, and the less diverse houses remain as they are. That some houses will not participate indicates that it is not just an issue of choice against diversity, for Harvard wants to preserve house sovereignty and encourage house diversity...
...days after Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 announced changes to the freshman lottery system, some administrators, house masters and students said they would support a completely random system similar to the one used by Yale University...
Harvard's new plan was a compromise between those advocating a completely random system and those supporting the former system, which they said maximized student choice...
Most Harvard administrators say a move to asystem resembling Yale's is not likely in the nearfuture. But some, including Jewett and Dean ofFreshmen Henry C. Moses, have voiced support for acompletely random process...