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...does one follow such extracurricular success? Apparently, judging from the content of Turow's recently released novel, The Burden of Proof, you stick to what got you there. For Turow, what got you there is an engaging and intricate mystery that pays careful attention to the ins and outs of the legal system. Burden of Proof even retains as its protagonist a character from Presumed Innocent, the defense lawyer Sandy Stern...
Besides advising incorrigibles that it might be best to take some time off to rethink their reasons for coming to Harvard, Epps's duties include dealing with a wide range of undergraduate concerns, such as overseeing extracurricular privileges and assignment of performance spaces for student groups...
...Bridget Mergens Mayhew, the idea of forming an extracurricular Christian club at Omaha's Westside High School five years ago seemed simple enough. "There are a lot of pressures on kids," she recalls, "and we just wanted to get together and pray." But school authorities turned down her plea, fearing it would violate the separation of church and state. The refusal touched off a fractious legal battle that last week culminated in a spectacular win for Mayhew and her friends: a major decision from the U.S. Supreme Court barring discrimination against voluntary religious clubs in public high schools. The court...
...takes place inside the schoolhouse. The ruling, they fear, could place many schools in a difficult bind: it could pressure them to open their doors to all kinds of advocacy groups -- contentious pro-life and pro-choice clubs, for example -- or force them to prune down the range of extracurricular activities and eliminate popular groups like drama clubs and community-service clubs. Either way, education may not necessarily come out the winner...
...diversity of extracurricular arts and music groups with access to plentiful rehearsal and performance space is a worthy goal. A new undergraduate performing arts center may very well be the only long-term solution to the performing arts crisis...