Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notion that only students should judge other students is a precise, logical statement. It makes good sense: after all, judgment by peers is ingrained in American jurisprudence. But the catch is that this logical precision is undercut by an academic hierarchy in which Faculty assume intellectual and extracurricular ascendancy over students. The logic of outside institutions is lost to it, along with what another editor of this newspaper has called "University democracy...
Students, faculty and employees at Cornell University will vote today and tomorrow on whether to abolish the Cornell University Senate, an elected body that administers Cornell's $18.5 million extracurricular activities budget...
Efforts to provide such supervision often become mired in a debate over whether or not to award credit for such activities. Yet competent supervision in the arts seems well worth encouraging even if credit is not offered, for students seem to enroll in large numbers even on an extracurricular basis. Moreover, the issue of credit could be pursued more fruitfully by exploring new ways of combining performance with analysis and formal study in the manner developed with great success within the Music Department...
...section. This particular phenomenon was more often than not an innocuous, somewhat bland showcase for less than brilliant photographs. The Harvard Illustrated was no exception. Since its beginning in 1899, it had given itself largely to posed, rather staid photographs of events at Harvard, group shots of teams and extracurricular activities, and portraits of important Harvard personages...
...also called for an increased emphasis on the arts. "Competent supervision in the arts seems well worth encouraging even if credit is not offered, for students seem to enroll in large numbers even on an extracurricular basis," he observed...