Word: extracurricular
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...many people in the outside world, and especially to high school students applying to Harvard and Radcliffe, Harvard is a "coeducational" institution. Harvard and Radcliffe students attend classes together, participate in many organized extracurricular activities together, and presumably, because of the institutions' status as coordinate colleges, have ample opportunity for other kinds of contacts outside the classroom. Many students who do not want to attend an all-male or all-female college apply to Harvard or Radcliffe, secure in the notion that life at these colleges does not contain the same limitations as life at non-coeducational institutions...
Colleges may be characterized as coeducational in any of four dimensions: (1) classes (2) extracurricular organizations (3) dining and (4) residential. Harvard and Radcliffe can be characterized as essentially coeducational in the first two dimensions essentially non-coeducational in the latter two. The Harvard Radcliffe Policy Committee maintains that, while Harvard may be coeducational in its classes and in most of its extracurricular activities, the areas in which it is not coeducational are those in which the presence or absence of coeducation has the greatest effects upon students' lives...
Similarly, while most extracurricular organizations (except for athletics and clubs) are coeducational, most social relationships at Harvard and Radcliffe are not established through extracurricular activities. It is easy for Harvard and Radcliffe students to meet others who are participating in the same extracurricular activity; but students can meet only a limited number of others in this way. Even if a relationship is established, it is often hard to maintain it if the students see each other only once or twice a month...
...arguments for coeducational housing at Harvard and Radcliffe are the standard ones. Lecture courses and even sections aren't much of an atmosphere for the mingling of the sexes and only a lucky few are able to supplement their coed contacts in some extracurricular activity. And so, says the HPC report released last week, Harvard and Radcliffe should offer coeducational dining and housing starting with an experimental exchange next term...
...ROTC supported by those who sat in was never intended to reflect student opinion on this matter. The SDS position, roughly, is that ROTC must disappear from Harvard and that there is no student right to participate in a Harvard ROTC unit even on a completely voluntary non-credit, extracurricular basis. The SDS has never claimed that this view was "representative"; they have opposed a student referendum on ROTC. Their claim is simply that their position is "morally right" and, in this, they have the support of what I take to be a certain minority of both students and Faculty...