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Keep your promises. When the College decided to randomize the upperclass houses completely four years ago, Dean Lewis promised to conduct a full review of randomization and its effects on house life in 1999. Even though students who were around before randomization have since graduated (or are about to graduate), we fully expect the administration to hold to their stated promise. Furthermore, we urge that such a study be thorough and involve not only administrators and house masters, but students as well...
...process goes something like this: each spring, first-years from what the Undergraduate Housing Office calls "lottery groups" of up to 16 students. Lottery groups are then randomly placed into one of the 12 upperclass Houses...
...Freshmen Dean's Office (FDO) creates roommate groups for the entering class but has no control over the upperclass lottery, which is run by the Housing Office. Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans says in a recent e-mail that first-year roommate assignments are created without upperclass housing in mind...
...First-year housing groups are not assembled with any expectation that students will block together for their upperclass years," Nathans writes. "We are of course pleased when students form first-year friendships that carry over into upperclass blocking groups...
...third complaint raised by critics is thatmany upperclass non-SAC members drop out becausethey have feel they have little role in theorganization...