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...backlash against overparenting had been building for years, but now it reflects a new reality. Since the onset of the Great Recession, according to a CBS News poll, a third of parents have cut their kids' extracurricular activities. They downsized, downshifted and simplified because they had to - and often found, much to their surprise, that they liked it. When a TIME poll last spring asked how the recession had affected people's relationships with their kids, nearly four times as many people said relationships had gotten better as said they'd gotten worse. "This is one of those moments when...
...Your list of extracurricular activities (intramural crew, Crimson Key, TAPS, prefecting, HRDC shows, etc.) is quite extensive. How did you find time to do all these activities? Have they helped you prepare for your career? LEG: Fitting in all the extracurriculars was always a challenge. But, you know, how do you find the time? The time finds itself. Everything happens, sleep kind of takes a backseat but I had an amazing time on Crimson Key and giving tours and running the tours and I think that all of the teamwork and balancing academics and other responsibilities. It?...
...production, though created in the hours between classes, aims to push beyond the mediocrity of convention towards an ambitious, innovative vision. As a student group undertaking, “Momentum” is reflective of how far Harvard dance has been able to come despite being an extracurricular program, but it also displays the limits HBC will continue to face until it becomes a full-fledged endeavor...
...Harvard Dance Program, also limited to the extracurricular realm, shares similar constraints. “I think our Harvard students come in and are very prepared and smart so they can pull it off,” says Bergmann, who is not considered a full-fledged faculty member. “But at administrative levels there’s no faculty representation. I’m not privy to the decision making here in dramatics, theater and dance. We don’t have a voice at the table. And we need one. We’re still an extracurricular...
...September 1998, the University allocated an additional $2,000 to every College student’s financial aid package. Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles told The Crimson at the time that the funds would allow students more freedom in their extracurricular endeavors...