Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student government organizations tend, in my very personal opinion, to be vain, egotistical and close-minded. Many of them view participation in student politics as an excellent training ground for future endeavors on a somewhat larger scale. As long as the student organizations were looked upon as worthless extracurricular activities, this was harmless. But now that the members have managed to convince many people that they should play an important role in the University, their own presence is dangerous and must...
...EXAMPLE, Brown asks why the sections are not headed strictly by Soc Rel graduate students. But what Soc Rel grad student, in a department that does not offer courses on radical theories of social change, is "qualified" to teach such a course--except through his extracurricular contacts? The section men of Soc Rel 149 are eminently qualified to teach the material they are teaching--who can teach about modern Cuba better than a student who has been there? Who can teach about the Cultural Revolution in China better than a man who spent two years in China in the midst...
...state universities and Catholic colleges, it is simultaneously being banished from the Ivy League, a major source of precisely the kind of citizen-officers who might normally leaven the military with needed intellect and imagination. By faculty vote, ROTC will be stripped of academic credit and relegated to an extracurricular activity at Yale and Harvard. Dartmouth is considering whether to reduce the number of ROTC courses that qualify for credit or to drop credit altogether if ROTC is not moved off campus and limited to summer training camps. Similar recommendations are pending at Cornell and Stanford...
...apparently lost on many critics, who see no disparity in arguing against ROTC while arguing for a volunteer army. Such an army might well need a larger supply of ROTC officers, even if only to curb the growth of a real U.S. officer caste. Meanwhile, wherever ROTC is made extracurricular, the almost certain result will be diminished enrollment. Ultimately, the military might have to turn elsewhere for officers...
Yale thus joins other colleges that have made ROTC an entirely extracurricular affair. Although Yale has given academic credit for ROTC for more than 50 years, Arthur W. Galston, professor of biology and chairman of the faculty course of study committee, insisted that the decision was based "solely on the academic merits." Galston and his colleagues have apparently just discovered that "ROTC is like singing in the Whiffenpoofs-a perfectly fine activity, but one that we don't think merits any academic standing." Not all professors were even that dispassionate. J. P. Trinkaus, another biologist and master of Branford...