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About the same time this sorry show was going on within the Ivy walls, members of the incoming. Class of '86 were completing and returning their first batch of forms high schools around the globe. One statistic from a question asking students which extra-curriculars they expect to tackle this fall seems ironic: 417-or 25 percent--of the roughly 1620 accepting freshman said they expected student government to be either their first or second extra-curricular activity. Surprisingly, however, this figure is consistent with previous years...
...paper, the organization envisioned by the Gomes Committee was indeed enticing. Modeled on Phillips Brooks House, the Foundation was described as a "considerably more than a faculty committee or an extra-curricular organization." It was to be a catalyst for research and discussion of racial issues, a sponsor of Third World cultural activities, and an educational institution working for "the general improvement of racial understanding in Harvard College." At the same time it would avoid the tensions and pitfalls of "separatism." Perhaps best of all, it would be unique to Harvard and could be molded to fit the school...
Villarreal cautions that despite more student activity, only a small proportion of the school's population participates in progressive extra-curricular programs. She adds that the Law School remains "pretty conservative on the whole...
Larry Lesburg, director of the Harvard-affiliated Legal Aid Bureau, where Shelton worked part-time, suggested that the student's tremendous workload, in addition to his many extra-curricular activities, may have also upset...
...manager asks you to fill out a napkin with name and telephone number, and before you can say "extra seasoning," you've got your multi-head T-shirts and grease-stained apron. Training begins immediately, with stern warnings about accuracy and whispered tales of employees skimming off the top at a clip of $120 a day. Like most, I struggled not to bless customers with extra change and never had time to consider seriously any plans for extra-curricular profits...