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...well as dance courses taught through the Office for the Arts (OFA). But Harvard provides few academic options—beyond the complicated procedure of designing a special concentration—for the many students who wish to make the arts central in their curricular as well as extracurricular plans...
Larry has sometimes wondered, in his feistily Socratic way, whether the onslaught of extracurricular activity is distracting students from their true academic business. I have always stressed that my primary purpose is not to advocate a particular position. I just want the arts to be seriously reconsidered, and I think Larry, Steve Hyman, Bill Kirby and Dick Gross are likely to do just that...
...maybe there really is too much extracurricular activity, or maybe, as John Lithgow and others have sometimes feared, the wrong kind of curricular arts instruction, by tenured hacks, would dampen the extracurricular spirit that Arts First celebrates...
You’ll only start to get the big-time swamp-honeys if you think of ass-getting as an extracurricular responsibility on par with a major CityStep or Crimson Key leadership position. Morever, getting involved in CityStep or Crimson Key is a great way to grind up against the most rhythmic and ambitious asses at the College, respectively. Walking into the chillest final clubs on a Saturday night wearing a Crimson Key T-shirt is like wearing a neon sign that says, “I’m the master locksmith, I’m the great...
...massive increase in the arts has been demonstrated campus-wide—from skyrocketing enrollment in extracurricular dance courses (more than 600 Harvard affiliates now take dance classes through the University) to the emergence of new choral and a capella groups (interest in participation has expanded beyond the dozen already on campus). The ever more competitive admissions process has helped fuel this expanding interest in the arts; it is rare to find a Harvard first-year with no artistic background or training. An increasingly well-rounded—and often determined—student body has led to a flurry...