Word: extracurriculars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recruiting, appointing and nurturing members of the Senior Common Room, overseeing House tutorials and seminars, ensuring sound management and pre-professional advising, and being regularly available to advice students. Setting a tone involves continual attention to the House as a living community hosting social events and supporting House extracurricular life Day today operations include attention to the budget and "crisis management." Finally, representing the House externally means keeping abreast of College policy, attending faculty meetings and acting as Bok's spokesman to students...
...graphic descriptions of the extracurricular activity of the two men. Murphy does treat them fairly. He notes, for instance, that only rarely did either actively lobby on issues on which Supreme Court decisions were pending. And he notes that each was zealous in trying to safeguard the Court's legitimacy, a respect which hinged on its perceived uninvolvement in political issues...
...College Board ETS study found that "personal qualities" and extracurricular activities receive far less emphasis than grades and scores in admissions decisions: the NRC, while finding no societal or racial bias in standardized tests, urged colleges to "reconsider" emphasizing or even requiring them for admissions...
Pointing out that its findings run counter to common beliefs about the relative importance of extracurricular achievements in the admissions process, the study concludes that these activities usually make the difference only when the academic record is inconclusive...
Wallingham said he was surprised by the results and hoped they would not discourage high school students from pursuing extracurricular interests, which he called "terribly important." He concluded, "Colleges are not sending as strong a message as they ought to or might want to," he concluded...