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JUST like trying to nail Jello to a tree, it is difficult to pin down the argument against randomization. In one instant, opponents of randomization contend that the house system is just fine as it is: "We're all diverse here." And in the next instant, they anxiously plead against a system that a could land them in--God forbid--Adams or Kirkland...
...system would also preserve a large amount of student choice. The non-ordered choice system might even provide students with more choice than the present system, since students would be listing their top four choices instead of their top three...
...ordered choice alternative and the present system let the students choose their own housing and still don't impede our ability to benefit from Harvard's diversity. If the housing lottery debate forced us to choose between the goals of diversity and student choice, we would be in the difficult situation of having to weigh the relative value of these two goods...
...because both of these goals can be realized with the present system or the non-ordered choice alternative, the choice is obvious. Choose student choice and diversity. Choose the present system or non-ordered choice...
...Harvard Political Union's open forum on randomization, I heard opponents of randomization (mostly first-year students) argue that the house system is already sufficiently diverse, and if it's not, there's nothing wrong with having stereotypes, and if there is something wrong, randomization won't fix it, and if randomization will fix it, there are better ways of doing...