Word: staff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff opinion flippantly dismisses non-ordered choice as a misbegotten "compromise" proposal that in real terms may do little or nothing to correct the real problem...
...subtle irritation among the staff lies in the perception of persistent "types" of students--athletes in Kirkland, private school graduates and the wealthy in Eliot, and humanities or artistically inclined students in Adams--who do not mingle and will not unless they are forced...
...best moment, the staff concludes, "Segregation, voluntary or involuntary, accentuates differences and breeds intolerance." This is vitally, damnably true. But exaggeration or misinterpretation of the degree of this segregation risks a blind, reflexive response. The place for correcting very human, very social failings, lies within students themselves. Holding otherwise risks the accusation of paternalism, cynicism and shortsightedness...
...imagine a room full of moralistic upperclass students telling first-year students that this is the policy they support. Meet the staff of The Crimson...
Although I share the staff's reservations about non-ordered choice, I think the proposal at least merits further examination. To dismiss the widely-supported compromise as merely "political" accomplishes nothing. Perhaps Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 will maintain the status quo this year but ask students to fill out an additional non-ordered choice form this spring to use as valid data...