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...Without doubt, extracurricular ventures into the visual and performance arts should also be endorsed and encouraged on campus. But students who want to study and explore artistic disciplines and who find tremendous satisfaction in drama, music or painting should have the opportunity to do so--without anyone questioning their academic resolve or tenacity...
Unusual in that part of students' grades stems from their involvement in an extracurricular activity, the existence of the classes has, from time to time, elicited grumbles from envious students...
...would think that a flutist-cum-poet with a 1,520 SAT, an unblemished transcript and a passion for philosophy would find a warm welcome at Houston's Rice University. Renaissance Girl was involved in so many extracurricular activities--band, the literary magazine, the astronomy, philosophy and poetry clubs--that it took minute handwriting to squeeze them onto the application. Yet she never made it off the waiting list...
...other students, taking on major extracurricular positions has been easier to do in the early weeks when classes have not gotten underway...
Students' knee-jerk reaction against paying higher fees is not a good judge of the value of extracurricular activities--mostly pursued through student organizations. Student groups provide a campus public good, a vital and diverse range of activities for students to become involved in. The fact that an almost overwhelming number of student groups apply for funds from the council every year is a signal of how important this aspect of the council is to students...