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That plan seems to pave the way for opposition leader Vaclav Havel, a jailed playwright and symbol of Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution, and dash the hopes of Alexander Dubcek, the 68-year-old Slovak who led the "Prague Spring" reforms of 1968.
The presidential tussle is the latest battle for a popular opposition movement that in three weeks got the Communists to oust old Stalinist hard-liners and relinquish the party's 41-year monopoly on power.
By endorsing 100 percent randomization, the staff wraps itself recklessly in the banner of "diversity," carelessly applying a heavy-handed solution. It sacrifices the principle that a free, educated community can and should direct itself toward its own ideals--gradually if need be--for the illusion that tolerance can be...
Change in house assignment must take place now--on that, most informed College members agree. House stereotypes that are persistently repellent to large segments of first-year and upperclass students--athleticism, elitism or bohemianism--threaten to leave all students under-educated.
Indeed, proponents of 100 percent randomization do not claim to offer a cure-all for Harvard's problems of inequality; instead they implicitly argue broadly that randomization will give symbolic stature to the College's commitment to diversity.