Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of these proposals spring from the candidates' extracurricular involvement. Wikler's interest in improved athletic facilities stems from his involvement in first-year heavyweight crew. Plants' technology proposals are linked to his job as an Eliot House User Assistant. Both are active in theatre groups that they would like to support with more funds and space...
...ideals of Harvard students. Just take a look at how many of our classmates spend their afternoons in Roxbury or Mattapan tutoring, teaching or running an after-school program. Students here are willing and eager to give of their minds and energies. As long as teaching remains just an extracurricular activity...
...turning point. As Houses move further away from their former "personalities," students are becoming less interested in participating in House events. Social life for many students is moving off-campus, and a House-centered social system is seriously threatened. Undergraduates spend increasing amounts of time in extracurricular organizations, yet student groups are severely under-funded and must fight with Extension School classes for precious meeting and performing space. I believe that the problems of both student groups and the Houses can be alleviated through a mutually beneficial system of student group-House affiliation. The College must take action to ensure...
Nevertheless, problems with both the Houses and the student groups continue to exist. Right now, student life at the college is in limbo. Will social life return to a House-based center? Or will groups further fracture as students spend more time in extracurricular activities, while turning to organizations outside of Harvard for a social outlet? I believe that it is in the best interests of both the students and the College to return the focus to House life. The results of such an affiliation would tremendously benefit the entire undergraduate community...
This will be the case as long as we live in a society that places hard work among its highest values. Many students spend more than 20 hours each week on part-time jobs and extracurricular activities before sitting down to do their homework...