Word: extracurricular
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...what will best serve students. We want a president who believes that faculty responsibilities extend beyond the realm of a research lab and into the realm of teaching and advising. We want a president who sees college not simply as an academic experience, and embraces and prioritizes its extracurricular and social values...
...months later, none of it has materialized. I sought port but got Powerade. The extracurricular fair was especially Kafkaesque. What’s this “Bah’ai,” for example? When will the Veritones get around to singing “God Save the Queen”? Why am I the only one wearing jodhpurs? Harvard was hardly the sheltered time capsule I wanted—needed?...
...Schuster, a Cambridge teacher and another member of the school committee, shared Nolan’s concerns. He said that while the higher per-student spending was partially explained by smaller class sizes, cost-free participation in sports and extracurricular activities, and coaches for math and literacy, there are still ways in which costs can be reduced...
...institutions ought to promote. But beyond our objections to the discriminatory nature of the legislation, we are also concerned with the impact that such a law will have on sexual and health education. By denying students the opportunity to discuss “human sexuality” in any extracurricular context, the legislature is inappropriately denying students access to information about healthy, safe sexual practices. Withholding such information from students is reprehensible, unless the specific content clearly damages the student’s educational development. In this case however, the ban on sexual discourse certainly fails to meet that standard...
...Justice now backs about 300 Weed and Seed programs nationwide, some in areas as small as a few square blocks. Police, prosecutors and neighborhood-watch groups collaborate to weed out the drug dealers and other undesirables, while public and private social-service providers seed the area with wholesome extracurricular activities, new community centers, job counseling and beautification projects that offer residents an alternative way of life. "Criminal justice isn't what makes people behave," Cadora says. "You strengthen the institutions so people have a stake in things...