Word: randomness
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...result of a random draw to determine positioning, she began the race 12 runners out in the tightly packed main section of the double waterfall start. Richardson took advantage of the relatively slow initial pace to obtain positioning near the core of the main pack and ran a strong race throughout, though she lost a little ground as it drew to a close...
...social life than they are now,” said Jonathan A. Lieberman ’85, who had transferred to Harvard from Amherst. “Every House had its own personality because it wasn’t a lottery—it wasn’t random. It wasn’t that easy to be a transfer student. I was trying to make friends and feel like I was a part of the House community on the river. I did not have much of a feeling for Dudley House...
...College evolved into the system that the class of 1985 experienced—which began in 1971—where freshman students would select their top three preferences and be sorted by a computer into either one of their choices or a random House...
...dean handpicked his committee’s members—three student members, three House Masters, and Former Dean of the Students Archie C. Epps III—who would meet quarterly to discuss whether or not to make the housing system random...
...committee] worked with the Dean of the College, John Fox, to survey students and determine whether they favored randomization of housing assignments,” Falk said. “While some students certainly favored randomization at the time, most did not, and so the committee could not recommend that the housing lottery convert to a purely random system...