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...stands, there is absolutely nothing barring professors from contacting ROTC officers and getting their courses approved. The proposal requests additional administrative encouragement, encouragement which the administration does not provide to make life easier for students involved in other extracurricular activities. The Staff should be more honest with itself and should not be so easily deluded into endorsing an organization which it actually does not wish to endorse...
...awards “help [the recipients] recognize that this is part of their life, not just an extracurricular activity,” Dominguez said...
During my FOP trip, right before my freshman year at Harvard, my FOP leader gave me my first dose of Harvard lore. “There are three areas necessary for a happy, successful college life,” he said. “Academics, extracurricular activities, and a social life. At Harvard, you can only pick two.” As an intrepid, self-confident first year, I pooh-poohed his antiquated adage—surely there were some people who found a way to have it all. This is Harvard...
...Then, with a devilish glint in my eye, I had an epiphany! In a stroke of genius, I had found the perfect solution: fulfill your extracurricular and social life requirements at the same time. What could be better than joining a close-knit group of people who all share a common interest? And I had the perfect role models: no, not The Crimson, but a cappella! All I had to do was look at the smiling, poised faces of charismatic students snapping and harmonizing to realize that they were the lucky ones who had it all. I became convinced that...
...actually a door re-opening. Keith first penned these commandments during the politically turbulent late 1960s at Harvard, where the government concentrator in Eliot House spent most of his extracurricular time mentoring high school student council members...