Word: extracurricular
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...maximal use. Students are far more likely to attend student group events and utilize study and social spaces if they pass by these spaces and offices in their daily routine. Harvard students are notoriously busy; a centralized place to ground the essence of the College’s effervescent extracurricular life is imperative. Moreover, an imaginatively designed student center—that actually excites students by providing what they want and even what they don’t yet realize they want—has the potential to be the kind of place that draws students there by the nature...
...dramatists at Harvard are enthused by the possibility of a theater concentration. One major conflict that has arisen in the discussion of a dramatic theater concentration is the constraints that might be placed on extracurricular theater groups, such as the Harvard Radcliffe Drama Club (HRDC), whose seasons are already packed without having to compete with the performed theses of concentrators...
Kiely invokes the success of the music program as an exemplary balance of academic and student performance interests. “Extracurricular music clubs absolutely flourish on this campus and the number of music majors on the campus is very small,” he says. “I don’t see why that wouldn’t be the same in theater. If you’re a good actress or good director, you would find plenty of things...
According to Assistant to the Chair of the Music Department Mary Gerbi there are approximately 45 music concentrators. As to why no conflict exists between student groups and academics, “the activities of the music department and those extracurricular groups are quite different,” she says...
...administrators are willing to facilitate discussion with Harvard drama students and members of the extracurricular dramatic community, student input may have a profound effect on the construction of a theater concentration. It should be after all for the benefit of Harvard students that new concentrations are created and with their best interests in mind...