Word: extracurricular
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...Miraculously (as it seemed at first), people would help. Far from averting their gaze or palming me off, interviewees would e-mail me extra information, share anecdotes, call me back to check details. They were often funny and invariably nice. No longer an abstract phobia, strangers were an extracurricular...
...dirty. But as with anything new at Harvard, the potential direction of the project has been a cause of controversy. The General Education Board’s proposed exploration of expanding the scope of activity-based learning has incurred the ire of critics who fear bureaucratization of student-run extracurricular activities...
...Last fall the Task Force for General Education, made up of Harvard Faculty, two students, and an assistant dean, met to determine the future direction of the undergraduate curriculum. Based on the undergraduate community’s apparent passion for extracurricular involvement, their proposal recommended that a committee be formed to explore ways to link students’ existing activities to their current coursework. This differs from the existing Bok Center program in that it lets students take initiative in relating their non-academic pursuits to classes instead of offering courses with a specific outside component...
...Task Force’s proposal has some students afraid that the initiative would mix their academic and extracurricular lives unnecessarily. A Feb. 15 Crimson staff editorial voiced concerns that “the only thing that such a policy would accomplish would be to bureaucratize extracurricular life at Harvard...
...It’s the specific use of the word extracurricular that I have a problem with,” says Rowan W. Dorin ’07, a history concentrator. “I only disagree with activity-based learning if it integrates existing Harvard activities. If you want to teach a class on Russian drama and have everyone perform a play by Chekov, that’s great...