Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some officials assume that random House assignments should be used to ensure that each House a "microcosm" of the College community, other believe that students should be able to exercise some degree of choice--even at the expense of diversity...
Which would you prefer: To maintain the preference-based system of assigning freshmen to the Houses, or switch to a more random method? That's the question you'll be asked next week in a campus-wide referendum on the freshman housing lottery, perennially a source of anxiety and frustration for students and officials alike...
...officials say, response to the availability of tickets has been positive, though exact numbers are unavailable. Whether the plan has had its intended effect is another matter, one that may be answered in the results to yet another survey. The College will take a look this spring at a random sampling of undergraduates and faculty conducted during the fall, aimed at determining why both groups seem, on average, cold to the idea of initiating contact. The poll may provide a statistical base for more efforts along the line of the meal-ticket program, or other, more substantive changes to increase...
...access to highly secret information, or may be under consideration for such access, will be given additional polygraph tests. They will be specifically designed to see whether those being examined have already divulged military secrets or may be inclined to do so. The tests may be given on a random basis...
Critics of the polygraph, which measures pulse rate, blood pressure, breathing patterns and perspiration, contend that it is most apt to be wrong in random screening where the tested person is not asked about a specific act of wrongdoing. Dr. John Beary, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for health affairs and now associate dean at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, further insists that "there is no physiological response unique to lying." The machine, he contends, detects excitement, not lies. Beary adds that Soviet agents are routinely trained to beat the machines and that the Pentagon's increasing...