Word: extracurricular
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...about time the U.S. appreciated geekdom in its entirety. The correlation between geekiness and intelligence is not the only reason that hiring or hanging out with a geek is beneficial. The sports geek might have more of a connection to Joe America with his strings of stats, but another extracurricular geek also has a lot to share. Anyone who is that into [insert random geeky thing here] will contribute some interesting conversations...
When the Class of 2006 came to Harvard, we were greeted with a series of ominous warnings. A letter from then-Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 instructed us to “slow down” and limit our involvement in extracurriculars; a speech by Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby advised us that “You are here to work, and your business here is to learn.” President Lawrence H. Summers, never one to mince words, succinctly derided Harvard’s extracurricular-heavy culture...
...that Lewis, Kirby, Summers, and many others in the university administration have almost departed, and as the curricular review moves (hopefully) towards implementation, the College would be well served by taking a hard look at its attitude toward extracurricular activities. Efforts to remove extracurriculars from academia, experience shows, are non-starters; a far more achievable and positive goal would be to put a little more of academia into extracurriculars. Rather than seeing the two as oppositional, with X hours going to one or the other, we should encourage the many ways in which they can be complementary...
...been constantly reminded of the dearth of student-faculty interaction on this campus. While solving this problem in the purely academic sphere is daunting given our institution’s extensive inertia, far fewer hurdles stand in the way of making progress on this divide through the extracurricular route...
Beyond the advising realm, there is more that extracurricular groups can do to contribute to the College academic experience. Student groups regularly fly in guests from all over the world to speak at their events, often overlooking the great number of potentially fascinating speakers available here on campus. Events with faculty speaking on their areas of interest to members of the group require no travel arrangements, and could be an easy way to infuse some academic substance into a group’s work...