Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are a whole host of reasons why a given science concentrator at Harvard might not want to join The Crimson's news staff. Endless afternoon labs, for example. Grueling problem sets. Backbreaking exam curves. There hardly seems enough time to breathe, let alone join an extraordinarily time-consuming extracurricular like a daily newspaper...
While all of the students, who were chosen to speak based on their academic and extracurricular achievements, have strong records, they may have to rely on the city fund or similar programs in order to attend college...
...toward an era when there may be no ethnic majority, with whites just another minority, multicultural and p.c. demands are spreading to previously unbesieged institutions. Ethnic studies have been mandated at such heartland schools as the University of Wisconsin and Texas A&M. At Yale, funds unavailable to most extracurricular groups underwrote student performances of Hispanic culture, while nearly half the student body petitioned for more courses on the Asian-American experience...
...have this fab boyfriend who I really like a lot, but there's a problem. His extracurricular activity is theater. Specifically, tech stuff. As a result, I go with him to every single play that goes up at Harvard. Every single one. "Heidi Chronicles." "Fuente Ovejuna." "Merlyn." "No Second Troy." "La Cage Aux Folles." "Deathtrap." You name it, I've seen it. I'm running out of "Opening Night" clothes. Why couldn't he be on the hockey team or be on the U.C. or even The Crimson? or even a capella, for God's sake! I'm sick...
...flair and commercial flavor, Bowe's extracurricular life has also reflected the champion's earnest side. In February Bowe took a two-week goodwill trip around the world, making stops in South Africa, where he met with Nelson Mandela and pledged his support to the African National Congress; Somalia, where he delivered medical supplies to volunteer relief workers and visited American troops; and the Vatican, where he had a private audience with the Pope...