Word: extracurriculars
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Part of that interest propelled the Newton native to go to college five, years after leaving high school. He attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, but that did not keep him on the political sidelines. His extracurricular activities included managing a successful congressional campaign in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a project he characterizes as "worth it, but a bit of a commute...
...entry in the 1954 Phillips Academy yearbook did not inspire confidence. No college destination, no extracurricular activities and no nickname (the crudest of blows at a Northeastern prep school). In fact his sole distinction as a senior was being voted "most cynical." Still lacking a nickname, Contemporary Artist Frank Stella, 46, returned to the school at Andover, Mass., where he first got a taste for art. The occasion was the opening of an exhibition of his and other artists' work at the Addison Gallery of American Art, the only full-scale museum in the country run by a secondary...
There are about 700 black students at Ole Miss out of an enrollment of 10,000, or 7%. The university actively recruits blacks and encourages their participation in extracurricular activities. The Ole Miss football team is roughly half black; the basketball team predominantly black. In a society where organized sports are more than a ritual, Ole Miss partisans cheer their black players as enthusiastically as they do the whites, and the outstanding ones are authentic campus heroes...
...students and College officials theorize that the principal reasons for student government's foibles are inherent and may not change abruptly. Another reason why packed council meetings and heated contests for seats might not be immediately on the horizon is the dazzling success of other extracurricular organizations on campus and the healthy leadership being asserted in the activities...
Tarver--interested in genetic research--says he hopes to attend medical school in 1983 and next year wants to work in a Boston or Cambridge hospital "in a clinical environment." All his various extracurricular involvements have taken their toll in "terms of my overall academic performance," Tarver adds, saying that for much of his four years, he went to classes in the morning, labs in the afternoon, and the Yearbook, the GSA or whatever in the evening. Homework was left for late at night...