Word: would
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if the houses weren't diverse, we would still benefit from Harvard's diversity. Very few of us are so socially inept that we never leave our house. We meet people in different classes and activities. Contrary to what some people think, we all have lives. Some of us even go to parties...
...associate with people with similar interests outside of our house, but, conversely, putting people with similar interests in our house does not make us associate with them. Even if the houses were completely diverse and we lived in a community made up of 400 different people, we still would spend out time with the people whom we have something in common with, the people that we feel comfortable with...
...convinced that the present lottery system allows us to benefit from Harvard's diversity, then I'd like to draw your attention to some of the other alternatives that might maximize both student choice and diversity. I would be impossible to list all of the plans that people have suggested to me over the past weeks, so I will only detail what I consider to be the best alternative: non-ordered choice...
...ordered choice is quite similar to the present system. Students form rooming groups and can block together as they do now. Then, instead of ranking their top three choices in order, they pick (but don't rank) four houses that they would be happy in. The computer then puts the blocks in order at random as it does now, and it goes down the list, randomly choosing which of the four houses the group will live...
...ordered choice would eliminate stereotypes by getting rid of the ranked choices that enable similar people to fill up one house. If everyone chooses three or four houses that they would be equally happy in, then no house could be filled by any one group...