Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each reader fills out a sheet containing a few comments on the applicant and, perhaps more importantly, gives him a set of one-to-six ratings on his extracurricular, athletic, academic and personal potential that form the candidate's admissions profile. These ratings--the same ones used by the interviewer--provide a handy numerical system that can be used to compare the most diverse candidates...
Compulsory segregation by sex is banned in nearly all classes and extracurricular activities. (Among the exceptions: Boy and Girl Scout programs, sex-education classes and phys.-ed. classes featuring contact sports.) Pregnant girls cannot be excluded from class because of their condition. Sexual discrimination is barred in scholarship aid and admissions at the 2,700 or so federally aided colleges and universities. Despite feminist pressure, HEW refused to bar textbooks that might contain "sex stereotypes," fearing court battles on First Amendment grounds...
...what we should have as part of our education. That notion was common around here five or six years ago, but along with the radicals' departure, it disappeared. That's as good a thing as I think one can hope for. The fact that 700 people came to an extracurricular activity seems to say a lot about what's missing from the undergraduate curriculum...
Rosovsky explains that it is the extracurricular aspects of education, and not the academic ones, that have suffered the effects of the "illness" plaguing the faculty, "It is not a question of the classroom," he explains. Professors' teaching obligations have been maintained, but more personal relations, such as those involving time together at meals in the Houses, "have been hurt by the upheavals in 1969-70," he says...
Reardon described what some of the figures mean: In the extracurricular field, for example, "a one means you're really super. Bob Portney '74 is a 'I' violinist; a '2' and you're student body president or a newspaper editor; '3' means you're pretty involved; '4' means you go home in the afternoon and watch TV; a '5' or a '6' and you never move...