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...Time management is the most delicate part,” says Piper. “For me, the decision was to make my family my extracurricular...
...large part of Harvard undergraduates’ social life next fall has been placed in the hands of a diverse group of Harvard students, whose interests cover a social and extracurricular spectrum ranging from the Din & Tonics a cappella group to the Harvard Yearbook. The newly-formed College Events Board (CEB) elected its five-member executive board in their first meeting last Thursday. Tessa C. Petrich ’07 and S. Adam Goldenberg ’08 will lead the twenty-member social programming group that will take over the responsibilities of the Campus Life Committee (CLC) for coordination...
...sparked controversy and left more than a few students confused and frustrated.The administration is to be commended for the new program, largely designed by the SAB. Currently, most first-years have an abysmal advising experience, and often survive only on the coattails of upperclassmen in their extracurricular activities. Reform was urgently needed. But while the administration’s haste was understandable, the questionable and opaque process of selecting PAFs was not. Applications were due April 16. By April 18, some applicants had been accepted. Before the interviews began on April 24, a total of 90 applicants—nearly...
...vending machines stocked with unhealthy snacks. The removal of soft drinks from schools is but one step of many towards the goal of raising healthy children. An unfortunate effect of this soft-drink ban will be to eliminate one source of funding for many schools, in particular for extracurricular activities. Serious funding shortfalls in numerous school districts in recent years have caused these schools to rely on exclusive contracts with beverage companies and vending machine revenues for supplementary funding. Hopefully, the revenue from juice and milk sales will help replace the lost money, but some school districts may still find...
...it’s very chatty and informal,” she says. “In the College, there’s less dillydallying. It’s more, tell me your brilliant thought and I’ll tell you mine, then I have another class or extracurricular to go to so off I go.”However, professors say the more laid back atmosphere of the extension school is not necessarily reflective of the academic rigor of the classes.Robert H. Neugeboren, a lecturer on Social Studies who has taught Economics 1050: “Strategy, Conflict...