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...ladies and real food there) provides a suitable spot for a study-break. Next year, when the new Hilles Library is completed at the dormitory quadrangle, the Marshall will probably be very lonely. Where have the girls gone? The Radcliffe Administration seems unsure, but the changing names of the extra-curricular organizations provide a clue -- the HRO, the Harvard-Radcliffe Yearbook, H-R Young Democrats, H-R Young Republicans. The President of the Harvard Dramatic Club is a girl, as is the managing editor of the CRIMSON...
...Reserve Officers Training Corps has never been a favorite extra-curricular activity at Harvard. Something less than five per cent of all undergraduates now enroll in Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force ROTC combined. But this year, with the sudden increase in draft-awareness born of the war in Vietnam, a boom seems to be beginning in ROTC enrollments...
Last fall Harvard's Army ROT unit formed a counter-guerilla platoon. About 15 or 20 cadets continue to practice bridge-building, ambus demolition, and small-group movements as an extra-curricular active for which they get no ROTC credit...
...college of nation building, "extra-curricular" activities are extremely important. Kivukoni does its best to reach beyond its fulltime students. Weekend seminars on nutrition or the implementation of the Five Year Plan were held for outsiders. On the college's weekly radio program, "Bwana Mpango" (Mr. Planner) discusses the Five Year Plan with housewives, school boys, farmers, or the unemployed. Mbionl (On the Move), the college's monthly paper, is another attempt to reach a wider circle of potential nation builders...
Along with his duties as assistant dean and tutor in Leverett, Epps is a man of surprisingly diversified extra-curricular interests, many of which involve a large number of Negro students. Advisor to the Association of Afro and Afro-American Students, Epps feels that it provides a forum for discussion between African and American Negroes where they can examine the "useful aspects of negritude." Primarily, he says, it helps form a Negro identity, "but I do not think that the forum should exclude whites who are interested in the same issues...