Word: tamperings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...citizens have joined local protesters-to say nothing of worried scientists abroad-in strong criticism of the scheme. The argument has even reached the staid columns of the influential weekly Literary Gazette, where one economist, uncharacteristically outspoken for a Soviet official, argued that it would be economically disastrous to tamper with nature on such a grandiose scale...
...result, administrators are bracing themselves for a probable series of discussions next fall--most likely in the Faculty Council and among the House masters--which they say will resolve the issue of whether the College should tamper with the generally popular preferential lottery to achieve the microcosm ideal...
...human rights throughout the world. Our concerns about the quality and dignity of human life have shaped our history. Yet the seem to have forgotten for to be ignoring the lessons that have come out of human rights battles such as the Civil War--who has the right to tamper with life? To take life...
...NEED NOT be that way. Harvard could learn much from the experiences of its two Ivy League rivals with comparable systems, Yale and Princeton. Those experiences prove not only the merits of more random techniques of apportioning students, but also that, politically, administrators can tamper with preferential housing and live to tell about...
...diversity is nothing without contact, and liberty means little when it fosters closed-mindedness and separatism. Administrators have declined to tamper with the lottery because of one "risk"--that students might feel denied a privilege and act on it. That gamble seems slight compared to the risk Harvard runs--and has not entirely avoided--by maintaining a preferential, stereotype-reinforcing lottery; it is one that Harvard's Ivy rivals have taken successfully. Harvard is right to tread slowly when it may be encroaching on student privileges. But it also has a responsibility to act when larger rights and values--like...