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VICE PRESIDENT WILLIAM P. SMITH “People say that students are not involved any- more. 1 do not believe it. I think the type of involvement is just different. Vice-President Smith 20
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The Office of Vice President for Student Affairs has two main functions. One is to coordinate the development and application of student life pol- icies on campus. The other is to oversee student services offered through the Marvin Center, Coun- seling Center, Housing Office, Student Health Serv- ice, Career Services, Educational Opportunity Pro- gram, International Students’ Advisor, and an office directly related to the theme of this Cherry Tree issue, Student Activities. I think of student activities on campus in a broad sense, not limited to centrally-programmed social, cultural and recreational events, but also involving student participation in campus policy committees, in community service projects, campus political organizations, religious activities, leadership train- ing programs, intramural sports, campus publica- tions, and so on through the entire span of group activities out of class. Student activities take place here among a very diverse student population. G.W. students range from full-time resident undergraduates in Thurston Hall to mid-career government executives commu- ting parttime to Building C for a Master’s degree; from public school students from the inner city to private prep school graduates from suburbia; from students from more than a hundred foreign coun- tries, to hundreds of housewives from Beltway homes commuting in for career re-entry programs. For some of these diverse students, campus ac- tivities outside the classrooms clearly have little relevance. For others, campus life represents an interesting and valued aspect of college attendance. A few of these latter are graduate or professional students, but in the main they are undergraduates, and most often, full-time resident undergraduates. Many of these report both intellectual and social rewards from a portion of time invested in campus activities. If I were asked what particular out-of-class activ- ity seems to bring the most substantial rewards both to the participants and the University commu- nity, it would be service on one of the numerous student faculty committees that shape campus poli- cy. In the give-and-take of such committees, where issues can range from equality of educational op- portunity to student records access policies, stu- dent participants can develop, through the process of debate, committee skills useful for a lifetime. In committee service, opportunities arise to test intellectual concepts from the classroom. The feel- ing of anonymity experienced by undergraduates new to any large university (I remember it vividly!) disappears quickly for students involved in com- mittee efforts. The debate of issues by those who know they will be directly affected by the outcome brings both intellect and emotion into play ... a combination that reinforces learning to a degree not ordinarily reachable through reflection alone. As for the overall activities picture, there are those who still lament the passing of an earlier-day campus life. Activities in most major urban univer- sities no longer involve the elaborate home- comings, winter weekends, and massive parades and concerts of those times. The student bodies of institutions like ours have become far too hetero- geneous to support such events. Then as soon as the military draft ceased, that other notable feature of past campus life, the mass demonstration, dis- appeared as well. Today’s student bodies support a style of campus life that suits their own needs. They have devel- oped a greatly-expanded variety of smaller-scale, more-specialized activities. One of these can now be found on this campus to match almost any student ' s out-of-class interest, whether that interest lies in campus policy development, German liter- ature, hospital volunteer work, cross-country ski- ing, or support of a candidate for public office. To me the G.W. campus life of the Seventies is much the richer for this new variety in student activities. 21
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