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...addition to recognizing by name the majority of the more than 450 students in Quincy House, Master Aloian energetically kept up with students and their academic and extracurricular pursuits. His genuine concern for all was evident as he threw himself into the role of master of the largest house on campus. He was never paternal or condescending in his interest in students. Instead he was a friend who treated students as individuals in this large Harvard community as he sought feedback about the house, the college or any other concern...
...good education, your basic liberal arts education," says Moore of his alma mater. Although he began college with thoughts of medical school, those quickly disappeared after a freshman year filled with lab courses, and he decided to study history instead. Football was little more than another extracurricular activity, an afternoon of snapping footballs and and pushing around sweaty, grunting bodies...
...elected student representative to resign from the Undergraduate Council. The student--an author of last spring's prank that caused the University computer system to print out "This computer test sucks" continuously during the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement test--is on disciplinary probation and is thus prohibited from participating in "extracurricular activities." However, applying that prohibition to the Undergraduate Council is innappropriate and sets a dangerous precedent...
That the Ad Board, in this disciplinary proceeding, chose to consider Harvard's sole recognized student government as a mere extracurricular activity shows how little respect Harvard administrators have for the council's role as representative of students' interests. Being an Undergraduate Council representative is not just "a sort of recognition or honor" like any other activity; it involves responsibility to constituents and their interests. That responsibility can only be given or withdrawn by students, not by the University administration as deus ex machina...
...justifying the Ad Board's decision, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 undercut his own view of the council as just one of many extracurricular activities on campus. He claimed that it would be "unbecoming" for the prankster to serve as a student leader on the council. But decorum is hardly a reason to invade the relationship between students and their elected representatives. Its use here as justification is a symptom of the administration's narrow vision of the purpose of student government. The Undergraduate Council's own past conduct may be partly to blame for that narrow...