Word: seeks
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...comes in response to a disturbing editorial written by Joshua A. Kaufman ('All Pfucked Up," Dartboard, Apr. 8 1995) regarding campus housing. Mr. Kaufman embodies the very racism and ignorance that cause so many Black students to seek company amongst themselves. To describe the Quad as a ghetto merely because a larger proportion of Black Students resides there blatantly reveals the fact that racism is still a prevent force on this campus. The denotation of ghetto is a neighborhood dominated by some ethnic minority group. the fact of the matter is that whites and Asians far outnumber any group...
...around friends, who usually are white. Yet, I believe that Kaufman realizes the truth of this point but chooses to attack such rational decisions due to his own racist tendencies. He also proves that randomization is not geared to benefit Black as well as white students. By seeking to break up groups of black students, some proponents of randomization seek to calm the irrational, unfounded fears of white students. The Black students of Harvard-Radcliffe refuse to be blamed for whites fears. Racist white jounralism, so-called scientific investigation and pseudo-intellectualism are the causes of these fears...
According to Walker, the new executive guard, which took office in October, has placed unreasonable quality and time demands upon the editors and staff as they seek to bring HIR to the level of major professional foreign policy journals...
Randomization would make the words, "house community," meaningless as it reduces the houses to little more than residential dorms. Students will seek to find community outside of the houses, whether by moving off campus, rushing toward the final clubs or by forming new fraternities and sororities...
...current system ensures that the vast majority of students live in one of their top choices. The lottery usually allows students who seek the quiet and expanse of the Quad or the proximity and bustle of the river to determine where they want to live. And to the extent that administrators worry about house composition, the current system prevents any one house from becoming too homogeneous...