Word: extracurricular
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This is a terrible fallacy, and one which seniors begin to pick up on as they face the fact that adulthood and post-college life lie on their horizon. Senior spring, after theses are handed in and extracurricular commitments have more or less dwindled away, is a time for reflection. It is a time during which we who are soon to graduate can look at the experience we have had, and determine what was important and what was not; which classes and relationships taught us the most; and, on a more general level, it is a time during which...
...others in ROTC, also speaking personally--not as representatives from their time-consuming extracurricular, see the current debate cut to the heart of their Harvard experience. It raises questions of whether they feel truly supported on campus--and forces them to consider how something they've devoted so much time to can elicit such strong feelings from their peers...
...others in ROTC, also speaking personally--not as representatives from their time-consuming extracurricular--see the current debate cut to the heart of their Harvard experience. It raises questions of whether they feel truly supported on campus--and forces them to consider how something they've devoted so much time to can elicit such strong feelings from their peers...
Still, the protesters have maintained the relatively polite demeanor of a movement that is, after all, an extracurricular activity. Rodolfo Palma-Lulion, an anti-sweatshop activist at the University of Michigan, says of last month's sit-in: "The point was to show that students are not apathetic, that we care deeply about this issue, then go back to class...
...activities fee. Before we rush headlong into endorsing this increase, however, consider what exactly it gets us. Will our campus life become twice as vigorous if the council has twice the money to distribute? Or will balkanized student groups just get richer and more expansive? And if our extracurricular life becomes twice as dynamic, will our academic life correspondingly become half as significant a force in our undergraduate lives? The truth may be that Harvard's student life will be vibrant even without termbill subsidies; the strength of each entering class guarantees it. In other words, we ought...