Word: extra-curricular
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Probably at no other university is it such anathema to live off-campus. A crucial part of a Harvard students' academic and social life centers around the Houses. No matter how such time a student spends in the libraries or in extra-curricular activities, there is no substitute for the good times and bad times transfers are new to Harvard, in effect virtual freshmen, the isolation is even worse. Instead of becoming part of "the Harvard experience," they are left on the outside looking in, feeling like second-class students. "I don't feel like a Harvard student. I feel...
...student set up extra-curricular student study groups taught by the Fellows and other prominent experts, this semester including Ambassador Donald R. Norland's "The United States and Sub-Sahara Africa" and Boston Globe editorial cartoonist Paul Szep's "Satire...
...Radcliffe News). From the faculty's point of view we were an able, but sometimes inconvenient afterthought. As woman students we had not been able to improve things for ourselves because we lacked leadership against the immense Harvard bureaucracy. Any triumphs we had achieved, whether academically or extra-curricular, had come to us only with that extra push. Our close friendships sustained us through those four years...
...group of Harvard undergraduates (believe it or not, they are just like you) who are utilizing one of Harvard's many extra-curricular activities. These men are not alcoholics, they do not have sick minds, and they do not, above all, condone rape. These charges are totally unjustified. Still, it was very difficult for me to write this letter because of the futility of the situation. The Crimson, the Radcliffe Union of students, and the Undergraduate Council have blown this event so far out of proportion that I cannot see how any Harvard-Radcliffe student or administrator could form...
After a heated debate, the Faculty voted in mid-April to press the Governing Boards to strip ROTC of all privileges not accorded to other extra-curricular activities--for example, free use of University rooms, and scholarships--and to grant amnesty to students arrested for participation in the take-over. Students seemed responsive to the Faculty's willingness to listen to demands; on April 18, when 5000 students voted to suspend the strike after nine days, they cited the "Faculty's commitment to continuing progress" as their chief reason for agreeing to return to class...