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Last May, Kidd and McLoughlin announced plans to convene this subcommittee to study current undergraduate extracurricular regulations...
...join a semi-secret, somewhat silly, glorified tree house, complete with “no girls allowed” signs and bizarre rituals and customs? It’s socially stigmatized, it is not particularly cheap and it probably is not good for your studies or your other extracurricular activities. It is also a bizarre thing to put on your resume, which to some people at Harvard is the measure of all things. What’s more, there is going to be a substantial section of the campus judging you based on what kind of animal...
It’s hard to forget that first foray into a world known affectionately to extracurricular gurus as “postering.” In the past, people-who-postered did their stuff on Mondays and Thursdays around 7:30 am, after Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO) had cleared bulletin boards and kiosks. Confusion over postering has reigned since last fall, when, in response to frigid temperatures, the Undergraduate Council successfully launched an initiative to change the kiosk strip times to 12:30 p.m., allowing caffeinated promoters to sleep in a bit. Still, “No one really...
...deservedly so. The winners were the students who postered every entryway in their yard weeks in advance, the ones who knocked on doors and schmoozed with potential constituents, and the go-getters with enough initiative to draw up entire platforms. The losers? Kids (like me) grasping at whichever extracurricular straws were closest at hand...
...would be hard to dream up anything less successful). However, unless students both contribute to that decision and agree with the rationale behind it, the new general education requirement (the current proposed successor to the Core) will become unpopular long before the next review. We can tinker with academic, extracurricular and social structures at Harvard all we want, but without engaging students and focusing on their experience and culture it will be for naught...