Word: extracurriculars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like laundry room, or a neighboring house. Apparently, however, the University considers a convenient telephone to be a luxury item. Many students, on the other hand, do not consider it a luxury to speak with a teaching fellow, set up an appointment with a professor, or manage one's extracurricular affairs, not to mention calling the Harvard Police or the Escort Service...
Mayman was actually given to jobs. Horner wanted her to run Radcliffe's long-existing extracurricular arts program, which included the Agassiz Theater, a pottery studio, a dance program, a painting studio in Currier House, and a print workshop. Bok was less specific, encouraging her to design programs to get students actively involved in the arts, rather than just teaching history or theory, which were already covered in the curriculum. Translated into practice, this commission gave Mayman essentially a free hand in developing the office...
President Bok, who spoke next, cautioned freshmen and their parents against being too concerned with careers and achievement. He urged students to involve themselves instead in extracurricular activities, citing statistics that the most successful Harvard students are those who participate in activities, rather than those who do nothing but study. "In this respect: Harvard is one of the few places where you can have your cake and eat it too," he added...
...past history indicates that the council faces an unusually difficult task in erasing such a do-nothing legacy. The council must not only produce more than positive, visible changes in student life, they say. In seeking long-term support and attention, the government also must vie with better established extracurricular organizations--such as publications, drama societies, and athletic teams--that have traditionally proven the activities of choice on campus...
...quietly developed a set of guidelines for the council to handle controversial "political" issues. These aimed at insuring that hot issues receive the uniform scrutiny and treatment ideally accorded to the more standard council business of grants and a range of issues related to the residential, educational, and extracurricular lives of Harvard students. Those guidelines--while not binding on this year's representatives--will join an extensive set of internal memoranda and recommendations designed. Pratap says, to give the council an "institutional memory" that insures against the potential discontinuity that has hindered previous student governments...