Word: student
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...this would be a grave mistake. Controlled choice should not be sacrificed for the long term goal of higher quality education because it can help achieve this goal. By involving parents in the student assignment processs, it creates active educational communities of teachers, parents and schools...
...objections when the Minority Student Alliance lobbies for minority faculty recruitment, the BSA supports an Afro-American cultural center or the Chinese Student Association hosts a Chinese New Year festival for all students. But when minorities use these organizations strictly as social tools, they begin to isolate themselves from the rest of the campus...
Partial randomization offers token diversity at the expense of student choice. The sacrifice of some freshmen guinea pigs in a lily-livered attempt to pay lip service to diversity would only serve to alienate those unlucky frosh...
DEAN of the College L. Fred Jewett's plan for 25 percent randomization was scuttled by house masters who heeded student opposition to the proposal. Now Jewett hopes to take matters into his own hands, eliminating the masters from the decision process...
...concept of randomization itself violates the principle of student autonomy. Students have valid reasons for their house preferences--beyond wanting to live with people with similar interests. For instance, someone might want to live in Dunster House because of its excellent music facilities. Others may choose Cabot House because it is home to the famed student night club--Cookin...