Word: extracurriculars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With their classes, their residential halls, their extracurricular activities and extensive counseling services, colleges and universities have created a world that dominates the lives and thoughts of countless young people during years in which their character and values are being formed. Under these conditions, students must get help from their universities in developing moral standards or they are unlikely to get much assistance at all. Thus, even if presidents are overburdened and professors happen to prepare themselves in specialized disciplines, universities have an obligation to try to help their students understand how to lead ethical, reflective, fulfilling lives...
...success of our extracurricular life is that undergraduates run their own life," Epps says, adding, "that's also why we have the rule that graduate students cannot be officers of undergraduate organizations...
...ever go so far in the name of diversity to prevent students with the same concentration or activity from rooming together? Probably not, but that is the logical conclusion of the Dowling plan (which forgets that students daily encounter people of different backgrounds in the classroom and in their extracurricular activites). Diversity is a noble goal, but being free to select where one lives should not be sacrificed on its behalf...
While Constan is travelling with his roommates, many undergraduates are taking their extracurricular activities on the road...
First, we resent the stigmatization of Kirkland House students as "jocks." We are in fact a diverse house--our students are active in academics, community service, the arts and an array of extracurricular activities, including athletics. If others in our community would look beyond the surface, they will find unpretentious, accepting individuals who don't fit easy stereotypes. We value diversity in our house community and seek to foster...