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...disagree with the students who voted against the higher term-bill, their position is understandable: the term-bill may not have increased since 1988, but neither has the number of undergraduates. Students are perfectly capable--far more capable than their professors--of determining for themselves how much they value extracurricular groups, and there is no reason to reject a clear student mandate...
...different areas of campus life--student groups, performing arts and House life--has expanded in recent years, straining the physical resources available to students. Simply put, the College needs more space. Some sort of a student center would greatly increase the amount of office and meeting space available to extracurricular groups. Performing arts groups are unique among student groups in that their demands are often for the same large spaces on campus for performances and rehearsals. It is important that their needs continue to be met even with the potential loss of the Agassiz Theatre and the Reiman Dance Center...
Faculty and administrators say the demands of the University's ambitious Core and Freshman Seminar programs and pressures created by professors with extracurricular responsibilities has left many departments struggling to stay afloat...
...addition, Pedersen said, Harvard professors have more extracurricular responsibilities than their counterparts at other schools simply because of their standing in the academic community...
...towering elms in a middle-class neighborhood of northwest Chicago. Next-door neighbors remember Bob as polite, a good kid who did well in school and pleased his teachers. He went to the select liberal-arts Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., where he majored in chemistry but had few extracurricular activities, unusual in the busy, close-knit society of the school. He also studied Russian, something even his mother Vivian says she did not know. "He might have been one of those loners," says Bruce Spencer, who attended Knox but doesn't remember him. Hanssen went on to graduate school...