Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With less than a week remaining before the teeming ranks of the class of 2002 descend on Cambridge for pre-frosh weekend, a crisis over the involvement of ethnic student organizations in the extracurricular activities fair was averted yesterday with the decision to open the extracurricular fair to more student organizations...
Recently, the ground between Thayer Gate and the Science Center has begun to resemble a war zone, with zealous extracurricular groups taping countless posters to the ground in various patterns. When I have passed through this area in recent weeks, I can't help but think of how visitors to our beautiful campus must feel about Harvard students' reckless disregard for the beauty of our surroundings...
...three to six hours of practice per day without the additional concerns of papers to write, problem sets to complete and sections to attend. Violinist Jennifer Caine '01 notes that outside of taking classes like Music 180 at Harvard, most performing must "be done on the side, as extracurricular activities. I try to do a lot of catching up in the summer to make up for lack of practice during the school year...
Colleges often speak of their mission as "educating the whole person." A useful way to help do so is by enabling students to make community service part of their educational experience, along with classes and other extracurricular activities. In fact, many colleges are giving academic credit for community service programs, and I strongly support that trend. Learning and community service should go hand in hand. If they are joined together in college, they' re likely to stay together throughout life...
RAZA president Sergio J. Campos '00 says healso values extracurricular integration...