Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forcing the crisis, Bill Bailey led Dunster from the Council because the current situation looked "hopeless." To his mind, the Council not only was failing to represent the student body but was also trying to be "an extra-curricular activity ... doing too many things of no interest to the general student body." Bailey called for a diminished role for the Council, and a less imposing name--the Student Affairs Committee. Yet his suggestions for the selection of members implied no radical change from the present; the House would remain the basic political unit, but be strengthened...
Informal dinners and discussions will be arranged for the new students by their hosts, but the aim of the project is to integrate the students more fully into the various aspects of the life of the University, such as extra-curricular activities and social events, and to introduce them to more University students, teaching fellows, and Faculty...
...problems the committee will try to untangle are numerous, and by their own admission "very complex." In many respects their solution will shape the role of the Houses in extra-curricular activities for years to come. Now that peace reigns in the Council, a review of the muddled past is definitely in order...
...made by the Office of Tests reveals that '52 commuters felt a real isolation from the resident students, referred to by some as "those Ivy Leaguers." The traditional view has been that commuters miss out on the midnight House bull sessions; that they cannot participate in athletics and extra-curricular activities; and that they are poorer scholars than resident students...
...Committee also recommended that the University ends its "highly ambiguous and discriminatory" policy toward extra-curricular activities...