Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bicycled six miles daily to the campus because, he claims, closer quarters were all "listed for WASPS, right there in the official university housing bureau." Looking back, it seems almost inevitable that he became a political activist. As chairman of the Socialist Study Club at Illinois, Shanker devoted his extracurricular time to increasing attendance at club functions from an average of 15 to 500; he helped Socialist Norman Thomas draw a bigger crowd than either Tom Dewey or Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential campaign. He picketed Urbana's segregated movie houses and restaurants. A pacifist, he registered...
...ROTC loses its academic status, Pell argues, it will be "derogated and reduced to the level of an extracurricular game." Again he misinterprets the college program which is designed to allow students with career interests--politics or journalism, for instance--plenty of time to pursue them outside the regular course structure. It is not clear why those who want to be officers in the military could not do the same...
...national interest--survival of the nation in a cruel world through the maintenance of adequate deterrent strength--will be seriously jeopardized." Pell said that he hoped "that the ROTC concept will be fostered and enhanced on our college campuses rather than derogated and reduced to the level of an extracurricular college game...
...faulted Johnson for asking Earl Warren to head the commission investigating John Kennedy's assassination. Chief Justice Harlan Stone refused Franklin Roosevelt's request to look into the vexatious problem of how the nation was to get its desperately needed rubber during World War II. Such an extracurricular duty, Stone wrote, exposes a Justice to attack and "indeed invites it," inevitably impairing "his value as a judge and the appropriate influence of his office...
...compounded of inadequate facilities, rigid rules, distant administrators, dogmatic and unapproachable professors. Trapped in an archaic system, French students live a one-dimensional life that is virtually restricted to matters of the mind. There are few diversions from duty, no athletic teams or fun-centered weekends, almost no extracurricular activities. Days and nights are occupied with grinding, hard, solitary work. Left largely on their own, given little direction by haughty teachers who are forever talking down to them, French students have become -in the classroom, at least-a sullen, silent and smoldering...