Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Recruit more black resident tutors for the river houses...
...policy of total randomization seems at least partially, if not primarily, motivated by feelings of distress caused by the disproportionate number of black and Hispanic students that live in the Quad. Through total randomization of the house selection process, Harvard seeks to increase racial integration in the river houses. I am an African-American graduate student and a resident race-relations tutor at Eliot House, and I would certainly like to see more black students in the river houses. However, I don't believe that forced integration, with no attempt to change the underlying circumstances that caused campus housing...
...what should Harvard do instead of forced randomization? Here are some suggestions that might create an atmosphere that would actually result in more black students wanting to live in the river houses...
Walk-throughs, doubles and thin walls often eliminate privacy and romance, and can increase the tension of a situation. Though cynical students suggest that the dorm rooms are part of a larger conspiracy to keep Harvard sex-free, the layout of most River House rooms is merely the product of an architectural generation...
...send the Clintons any money beyond subsidizing them on Whitewater. He thought Clinton had blown it, and deserved to lose. More to the point, the McDougals were strapped for cash themselves. So McDougal decided he had to sell Lot 7 on the Whitewater property, the largest plot along the river and the one reserved for the Clintons' eventual use. It was unlikely that the Clintons ever seriously intended to use the parcel, which they'd never seen. Eager to raise cash by the date of the next payment to Citizens Bank, he agreed to sell the land to Chris Wade...