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Smith also echoed other critics of randomization, calling self-segregation a positive, community-building experience.
Race, quality of student life, community building and identity formation at Harvard are hardly unfamiliar topics. These and other issues were on the agenda as more than 100 students and members of the faculty and administration convened in Sanders Theatre last night for a discussion on "Randomization and Self Segregation...
According to students attending the panel, randomization and self-segregation are at the heart of the student experience.
In defense of the racial self-segregation that accompanied the previously unrandomized House system, panel member and Eliot House resident Charisa A. Smith '00 recognized the "taxing effect" of being a student of color at Harvard.
"It is not our role to be seasoned rice, tokenambassadors of our race throughout Harvard'sHouses," said panelist and Senior First MarshalBaratunde R. Thurston, speaking in defense ofself-segregation.