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...first-years quickly learn, with a crushing course load and more than 250 extracurricular options, sleep is often the last thing on the schedule...
...diversification of both Harvard's faculty and student body is imperative to improving race relations on campus. Beyond the classroom and extracurricular activities, however, House life plays a significant role in students' communities and in their interaction with each other. The House master selection committees should address the issue of ethnic diversity for the benefit of both the community and of the undergraduates themselves...
...complicated lives. As Lewis is fond of saying, students can build these lives around both College institutions as well around personal relationships that have nothing to do with Harvard. Consequently, Lewis argues, the College's role in student life should be to support "localized efforts based around residential or extracurricular life...
Certainly, localized residential or extracurricular efforts are one part of this structure. But there are other parts that are equally important. The College has, in the past, vocally condemned the final clubs because they are sexist and promote a dangerous atmosphere. If, despite this condemnation, large numbers of students choose to make these institutions a central part of their weekend experience at Harvard, a serious problem exists. Without an administrator in charge of student life, though, the College must rely on primarily passive means...
...disproportionate and destructive influence of final clubs. We need an administrator who can objectively consider--in the face of administrative opposition--the solution of building a student center or loosening the currently stifling rules regarding curfew and gatherings in student rooms. We need an administrator who realizes that extracurricular activities are but one of the many avenues available to students to spend their free time...