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Nadine F. M. Pinede '86 and Mary M. Hastings '86 were chosen from among the 30-year-old contest's several hundred applicants for their "academic achievement and remarkable extracurricular activism," said Ruth Whitney, Glamour's editor-in-chief...
Clearly the main culprit in the battle for an open decision making process at this University is the administration itself. It condescendingly views student protest as a kind of quaint extracurricular activity which doesn't affect the University. It even tries to squelch participation in its affairs by tampering with elections by its own alumni, as it did this year in the annual vote for the Board of Overseers. (The Board is a 30-member alumni body which technically oversees all decisions by the policy-making Harvard Corporation...
...majority of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences passed a resolution allowing students to cross-register in ROTC courses at MIT. Several faculty members said they believed students should not be prohibited from participating in any extracurricular activities...
Following an unprecedented wave of controversy for a student extracurricular, a proposal for an on-campus ROTC support group gained formal approval from the student-faculty Committee on College Life in April 1983. Both University officials and students expressed concern that the ROTC-related club would engage in the type of recruiting and other activities banned by the 1969 Faculty legislation...
...year Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence approved a formal agreement with MIT and ROTC, putting into writing the 1976 arrangement whereby Harvard students could get credit for three of the eight Naval ROTC courses offered through MIT academic departments--even though the Faculty had designated ROTC an extracurricular activity...