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...other young Asian Americans are also exasperated with being seen as "grade grinds" who do nothing but study. Asks an indignant Henry Der, who heads Chinese for Affirmative Action: "Is anyone telling black and Hispanic kids to engage in extracurricular activities? No, they are being told to study." Moreover, a 1984 study by Samuel Peng, of the Department of Education, showed that Asian Americans actually do participate in a broad range of extracurricular activities, much as other U.S. students do. Nearly a third of the Asian Americans he studied competed on varsity athletic teams, and more than 20% were active...
...others--thank you very much. But missing freshman and sometimes sophomore year makes it uniquely challenging to get some of Harvard's requisite exceptional experiences. The housing situation makes it hard for transfers to meet people, and that makes it doubly important for transfers to participate in some extracurricular activity. And, of course, participation in the groups that make it possible to have meals with someone besides a roommate is particularly intimidating for those just arriving at Harvard...
...blocks to supper is not so bad, knowing no one in the dining hall is no fun at all. Although most sophomores spend their time meeting new housemates, transfer students usually become friendly primarily with fellow transfers. It takes longer, perhaps only after becoming involved in an extracurricular activity, for transfer students to have a circle of non-transfer friends...
Attracted to Harvard's reliance on a variation of the tutorial system she had enjoyed as a child, an insistence on academics overpowered extracurricular impulses. Her activities in Amnesty, as publicity manager of the Dunster House Film Society, and as a cellist in Musica Modus Vivendi have been minimal in order to accommodate the five- to six-course load she has maintained since freshman year. Leisure time is spent reading novels, her favorites being those of the Bronte sisters and Charles Dickens, playing the piano, and occasionally attending Japanese Cultural Society events...
...School students are voting this week on a referendum that calls for student input in allocating funding for extracurricular organizations, said leaders of the Law School Council which is sponsoring the referendum...