Word: extracurricular
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...think it’s a strong point for the American system.”Life SwappingResidential life isn’t the only novel thing about American college life for the exchange students. Like many freshmen during orientation week, Mason was blown away by the extent of extracurricular activities at Harvard. While students at Sciences Po spend more time in the classroom, Harvard kids are running clubs and founding organizations. “They don’t expect you to get involved in organizations as much,” Mason says of Sciences Po. But on U.S. soil...
...jointly by the New Mexico Department of Education and the Children, Youth and Families Department, it cannot by law accept donations the way a normal public school would. But with the help of the PTA, a nonprofit supporting agency, Murphy hopes to be able to raise money for extracurricular activities that states funds cannot be spent on - such things as athletic uniforms, prom dresses and pizza rewards for superior academic performance. She could not have even afforded to put on the upcoming open house, which she hopes to do once a semester from now on, without PTA assistance. Foothill...
With this in mind, we view with wariness the Task Force’s claim that, in proposing an activity-based learning initative, it does “not seek to bureaucratize extracurricular life at Harvard.” Indeed, such a top-down-mandated program is inherently paternalistic. Far from forging valuable links within and without the classroom, this proposal would only get in the way. If there are in fact links to be forged, Harvard students are smart enough to forge them on their own without the “help” of papers or assignments...
...College’s laissez-faire attitude towards the life that its students lead outside of the Yard’s classrooms has long been mutually beneficial. If the Task Force wishes to make students regard their academic life with the same excitement as they do their extracurricular affairs, it should focus on improving the quality of classes rather than borrowing students’ enthusiasm for the life they lead outside of coursework and risk infringing upon an arrangement that works so well...
Instead, the College should continue its policy of salutary neglect toward extracurricular activities and recognize that the “tendency on the part of many students to regard their extracurricular life as separate from their academic experience” is in fact a boon, not a burden...