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...already-announced Center for the Humanities and Memorial Hall Commons projects are given $23 million and $25 million, respectively, in the plan. The plan also sets aside $3 million to replace the student space lost in renovating Memorial Hall and to encourage extracurricular activities...
Students, though, were the biggest change the perceived on campus, alumni said. Undergraduate, Gondelman said, seemed to be more involved in extracurricular activities than students in his days...
...simplest reason for all the extracurricular work may be the strongest: Hollywood remains in a deep recession, and the agency will earn more from one Matsushita-MCA deal than a whole lifetime of 10% fees from Kevin Costner. If Ovitz is able to unload MGM at a decent price, according to a knowledgeable source, Credit Lyonnais will probably pay him north of $30 million. Plus, as long as he has his main talent-peddling business going strong, Ovitz can very profitably cherry-pick in the secondary realms. He can create an ad campaign here and arrange a corporate acquisition there...
...energetically spreading the idea that Ovitz isn't minding the store. Says Block about CAA's extracurricular businesses: "Smart clients question what's the value-added service when senior agents are busy with outside deals, and they get shunted to junior agents." His boss Jeff Berg echoes that point: "My core business is managing the careers of talented people." This may be the major risk in Ovitz's expansive strategy; CAA clients could start to feel neglected and then restless, even if their fears were unjustified...
...Harvard's paternalistic view, however well-meaning, fails to take into account the student's free will. Presumably, Harvard enacted its moral code to protect its students. But what about the student who becomes attracted to his or her teacher and wants to pursue an "extracurricular" relationship...