Word: self
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...randomly assigned students intended to bring diversity is a new form of tokenism. The randomly assigned students do not benefit from losing their choice and being placed in an environment in which they may be less comfortable, and the upperclassmen will not suddenly transcend their perceptions of house and self because of an influx of 40 token, unexpected sophomores. These students are being used to pacify the University's embarrassment over house stereotypes, which block Harvard's dream of perfect diversity...
...assimilationist ploy that has been all too fateful for the Jews in the past...the vice of assimilation is that it is always superficial and fragile. Wouldn't it be better to abandon such a foolish enterprise, to give up on false security in order to regain dignity and self-respect...
...some groups detest the idea of giving up any choice at all. Freshmen, opposed to a change that directly affects them, reacted vehemently, as more than 1000 of them petitioned for a review of the plan. Withholding lottery numbers only adds insult to injury, removing the last vestige of self-determination and information left freshmen. Regrettably, the Undergraduate Council also opted for the shorter-sighted goal of preserving choice at all costs in the face of self-perpetuating stereotypes of houses that, like it or not, shape students' residential life...
...last Corporation member never to sit on a board with women, Heiskell might well have underestimated the impact of Judith Richards Hope, named yesterday to the seven-member Corporation, will have on North America's oldest self-perpetuating board...
Judith Richards Hope, 48, was officially elected to the Corporation on Sunday, when the self-perpetuating body met and voted to end 339 years of all-male membership, a Harvard spokesperson said...