Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Utah school board that banned all non-academic clubs in an attempt to prevent a gay-straight student alliance (News Brief, Feb. 22, 1996), a student named Brett Shields is quoted as saying, "Everyone suffers because of the gays." Yet, it seems so clear that students are losing extracurricular activities not because of a group of students who want to start a club which people are free to join as they may, but because of the prejudice of the school board and community...
Performers at Harvard must draw on the resources of Harvard's houses and extracurricular community to find outlets for their music...
...college experience is shaped by both curricular and extracurricular activities. This essay presents a third dimension. Often the curricular factors have been perceived as dominant, but to give a complete picture of college life it is essential to understand the context in which a generation of students experiences college. These personal issues and problems have an impact on the quality of college life and thus on the whole experience...
...weeks ago, hundreds of high school students marched in the State Capitol in Utah to protest the Salt Lake City school board's ban on extracurricular clubs. Usually, most of the adult world despairs of student apathy. They must have been pleased to see such motivated students...
Utah is only following the federal government's lead. If the federal government could shut down for more than a week because politicians were battling over the budget, then likewise all the extracurricular activities in three Utah high schools can easily be abandoned for a few years while this situation is debated. But the school board is playing with people's lives and educations...