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Tribes that are federally recognized havepowers similar to those of the 50 states and areentitled to the same types of federal aid, shesaid...
...only do we associate with people with similar interests outside of our house, but, conversely, putting people with similar interests in our house does not make us associate with them. Even if the houses were completely diverse and we lived in a community made up of 400 different people, we still would spend out time with the people whom we have something in common with, the people that we feel comfortable with...
...ordered choice is quite similar to the present system. Students form rooming groups and can block together as they do now. Then, instead of ranking their top three choices in order, they pick (but don't rank) four houses that they would be happy in. The computer then puts the blocks in order at random as it does now, and it goes down the list, randomly choosing which of the four houses the group will live...
...ordered choice would eliminate stereotypes by getting rid of the ranked choices that enable similar people to fill up one house. If everyone chooses three or four houses that they would be equally happy in, then no house could be filled by any one group...
...that Kirkland House is not maximally diverse is not to say that athletes fit some stereotype of "a jock," because they surely do not. It merely affirms the obvious: that people who spend most of their waking hours doing similar things share a strong commonality that distinguishes them in a very real sense from everyone else...