Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solution to balancing school and work maybe finding the right job. Director of StudentEmployment Martha H. Homer says her office oftenhelps students find positions in community serviceand labs that pay well, and are as interesting andresume-building as an extracurricular...
Moreover, students today seem busier than ever before. Jobs, extracurricular activities and other obligations keep students outside their houses for longer and longer periods of time. Meanwhile, a fast-paced hightechnology culture may also have contributed to the withering of House communities. Students are now used to grabbing lunch on the fly; they're habituated into spending hours alone in front of the computer. They do not possess a communal mindset...
...secret and kept their children inside during school hours. Most publishers refused to sell them teachers' guides, assuming they wanted the answer sheets to help their kids cheat. So they bought the textbooks Christian schools were throwing away. Home-schooled kids didn't have many academic or extracurricular outlets, which was all right, since almost all were under...
Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, a committee member who has worked over the past several years to accommodate extracurricular groups in need of permanent office space, was also positive...
...also considered the recent growth in extracurricular groups on campus. Since the 1990-91 academic year, more than 35 new student groups have been formed...