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...Notorious jackass Tom V. Jeffries ’04, is primed for a leadership campaign at his favorite extracurricular. Moaned colleague Leonard N. Sanderson ’03, tired of his incessant politicking, “The only vote he’ll win is Ass of the Year.” Thereby unseating Gossip...
Last Wednesday, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) approved a measure that will help first-years pick their concentrations by creating lists of upper-class advisers. Each academic department’s head tutor will create a list of upper-class students, including information about their academic, extracurricular and career interests. By this spring, the lists will be available online for first-years to seek and find student advisors...
...type Notre Dame thought it was looking for, one reason he wasn't hired in the first place. He's an intense, Bible Belt Southerner who worked his way through a series of coaching positions to the top job at Stanford, where football is only one of many extracurricular student activities. He's also the first black head coach in Notre Dame history, a mantle he wears somewhat warily. "I'm not one of those who likes to be in the spotlight," he says, "although I do recognize that in this job the light is always...
Suggesting that self-segregation is a phenomenon unique to athletes, and that athletes aren’t interested in friendships with other students, is silly. Some athletes choose to block and socialize predominantly with other athletes; some social groups, whether based around ethnicity or extracurricular interest, choose to block and socialize predominantly with each other; each are aspects of any society, and none are inherently problematic. Human societies function in such a manner, and a simple fact of life is that people tend to choose to spend time with others who share their interests...
...talking to someone who lived on noodles for four years, and here I am in this beautiful dining hall—I don’t have to do any grocery shopping, or cooking, or cleaning up after the cooking.” Harvard’s breadth of extracurricular activities, while surprising to most students who are used to their home universities’ strictly academic focus, also offers the chance to participate in IM sports or any number of campus clubs. But most immediately fall into the same traps as regular Harvard students—and that includes...