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...picked absolutely last when it came time to choose sides for anything from softball to field hockey. Wise captains hid me in the backfield where I couldn't do very much damage. So, I came to college without a thought of pursuing a sport. Journalism became my principal extracurricular pursuit, and the walk from Dunster to 14 Plympton Street constituted my only real form of exercise...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: All for One and One for All | 4/13/1987 | See Source »

...liberal education he not only insults Brown inappropriately but does not even any relevant information about the University or its academic policies. Instead he sensationalizes his story with a crass example. To characterize academic standards as "idiocy" and to link approval of a new concentration to "idiocy" evidenced by "extracurricular prostitution" is outrageous. I find this article offensive and in poor taste. Carol R. Rakatansky, M. Ed. '87 Brown University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown University | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

...Happy Hacker does not want to discourage students from participating in extracurricular activities, he merely wants to suggest that there are other things to do--such as sitting in front of a terminal on a nice spring day, watching the sun shine and realizing that the weather could be improved with just a few advances in the present hardware and software technology...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: I'd Rather Be Graphing | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...course, playing around with fancy graphing software isn't necessarily a cure for over-indulging in extracurricular activities, but the next time you're offered the chance to sit at home with your computer or protest a representative of the South African government, which would you choose...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: I'd Rather Be Graphing | 3/26/1987 | See Source »

...come to expect this sort of idiocy from the school of no-fail academics and extracurricular prostitution--not to mention suicide pills and Amy Carter. In upcoming years, which for Brown concentrations in Zen Basketweaving and Gay and Lesbian Studies...

Author: By Craig S. Lerner, | Title: Banner Waving and Consciousness Raising | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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