Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the College's quota system may have affected which houses went random. The quotas require that the ratio of sophomore men to women be between 1:1 and 2:1. If a house had reached its quota for male or female sophomores, the computer would only accept members of the opposite...
...Random House; 272 pages...
Always already: to be inserted at random in any sentence...
...while a random housing system would prevent us from choosing where to live, it would put a premium on choosing with whom to live. Groups of 20 people could block together because they would no long have to fear being turned away from a favorite house...
...While a random system would create greater diversity within each house, it would nonetheless allow and even encourage people with similar interests and characteristics to move through the lottery to a house together. That's how it should be Freshmen would have to give up their nightly ice-cream bashes but the resulting calm nerves and diverse houses would more than compensate...