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1973–74 Lawn Residents

Housing Readjusts Room Lottery

By MARGARET ALFORD

Students selected to live on
the Lawn next year will receive
new room assignment lottery
numbers next week, Housing
Director Ralph E. Main said
yesterday.

The Housing Office mailed
letters to 1973-74 Lawn
residents Friday, notifying
them of their selection as well
as denoting a priority number
to be used in assignment of
rooms to the 47 persons
chosen.

Because of "a
misunderstanding on the
report from the Lawn
Selection Committee," Mr.
Main said, "students were given
numbers in the same order in
which they ranked on the
Selection Committee's list."
Thus, students most highly
rated by the committee
received the highest priority
numbers.

"We will renumber the list
by lottery," Mr. Main said,
"and notify the people by the
first of next week."

Selection Committee
Chairman and Lawn Head
Resident Jim Babb was
unavailable for comment.

Fourth-year man Drew
Bailey, a member of the
committee, said "It was my
understanding from past years
that there would be a lottery
conducted among the 47
people chosen in order to
establish who would get which
room.

"I presume that other
members of the committee
thought the same thing," he
continued. "At any rate, it was
no expressly stated by Jim
Bb or anyone else, that
people on our selection list
would get priority according
to their rank."

Applicants were rated on a
0-4 scale by members of the
committee and the average of
the members' votes determined
rank.

Eight endowed rooms are
yet to be assigned by a special
committee. If a student
selected to live in an endowed
room has already been chosen
for the Lawn, he will be
assigned to the endowed room
and a student on the waiting
list will take his place in a
regular Lawn room. Forty-one
students are now on the
waiting list.