Word: upper-class
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...artsy, alternative types; Mather's for the jocks; Eliot is snobby and Dunster is just plain weird. "No longer!" gloats the administration. In an attempt to fight the polarization that has supposedly taken over the College and thus increase the diversity within the campus, the administration has decided that upper-class housing should not be a matter of choice (not even the four-house non-ordered variety...
FIRST COMES THE DOCTOR; THEN THE PRIEST; THEN THE undertaker; and finally, Sotheby's. When you come down to it, auctioneering is a lugubrious trade. It thrives on death, divorce and debt, and the pink, deferential Brit in the now empty Park Avenue living room is to upper-class America what buzzards once were to luckless prospectors in Arizona. When the famous die, the salesmen perk up--but the trouble is that the really good art and antiques do not necessarily belong to the really famous. Ergo, find a way of using their fame to endorse their possessions, and turn...
...effort that would virtually rid the University of an obvious separation between Quad and River residents or black and white, this year is the first try at randomizing upper-class housing. First-years may "block" with up to 16 people of either sex and room with up to the same number of the same sex. While next year students will live in a house that already has an identity--artistic, athletic or whatever--in about three years, the houses theoretically will be completely mixed...
...first-year class every year is politely asked by the administration to make a list of 16 friends by the beginning of March. With these 16 people we will be sent out of our comfortable shelter in the Yard and into the world of upper-class houses. Of course, this is a problem every year. Wise seniors nod and respond, "Oh, the night before the blocking forms were due...well...it was quite a mess." However, something new arises for the class of '99, for whom the transitions seem to be particularly endless. Once we choose our 16, nine...
Diversity in Harvard's upper-class houses has become one of the most important points in the debate over randomization of the housing lottery. But Rudenstine said in the interview that he did not tackle the issue because randomization was not on the table when he began writing his report 18 months...