Four students, Art, Bob, Cal, and Dan, must be assigned rooms in a college dorm. The dean
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(a) Is there any stable assignment? Explain your answer. (Every student except Dan is the first choice of somebody other than Dan.)
(b) The humorist James Thurber once wrote a book called Is Sex Necessary? In what sense does this example offer an answer to Thurbers question?
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