Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempted to continue my academic and extracurricular schedule as usual, but I felt alienated from my peers and unable to function productively. There was something unpleasantly surreal about attending my classes, sitting in the dining hall and doing my homework as usual, while, unbeknownst to almost everyone, undergoing this emotional and physical upheaval. It was very difficult to reconcile the experience of being pregnant and having an abortion with the experience of being a successful, well-adjusted college student...
Heineman-Pieper, one of nine female winners of this year's scholarships and the only woman chosen from Harvard, plays the cello as an extracurricular activity and hopes to become a professor of academic and clinical psychology in the future...
...court became increasingly concerned about government support for religious expression, opponents began speaking up. It was one thing to outlaw state-written prayers, they said, but what about a moment of silence? Perhaps reading the Bible as part of a morning devotional was inappropriate, but what about recognition of extracurricular religious clubs? Justice Potter Stewart, writing in 1963, foreshadowed the debates of the 1980s and '90s when he warned that the court was hardly being neutral in its school-prayer decisions. A ban on noncoercive religious exercises in school placed religion "at an artificial and state-created disadvantage," he said...
Minority organizations, play a unique role among campus extracurricular groups, providing an opportunity for students to make sense of their own identities while celebrating the diversity of the community...
...minority population at Harvard has grown, so has the number of minority students involved in Harvard's oldtime, established extracurricular organizations...