Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to ignore for the moment that the decision about implementing a partial random lottery housing system disregarded student opinion. I'll pretend that, without considering the merits of university decisions, students should have no voice in making the policies that affect only them. With the random lottery system, there are already enough problems without raising this objection...
Harvard is trying to reconcile the qualities of choice and diversity within one housing system. Until now, Harvard (and many other schools) assigned students according to choice. Other schools (such as Yale) assign students entirely at random, preferring diversity to choice. Each system has its merits, for if it didn't, schools would not be using these methods to house students, and each system has succeeded in maintaining choice or diversity...
...EIGHT of 12 houses reserve 25 percent of incoming space for random assignment...
...third of six speeches of its kind to be given this year, the lecture was written with the help of a computer program that allows Cage to discover meaning in random word pairings...
...random requirement does not single out athletes, artists or any other students as earlier proposals of quotas did. Limiting the random factor to 25 percent kept the restriction on student choice at a minimum, since 15 to 20 percent of freshmen face random assignment even in the current choice-based system...