Word: focused
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...weren't as strong an overall team this year as we've been in the past," Coach Matt Bellizzi said. "Our focus this season was more on individual improvement than worrying about how we placed as a team...
...could specify just what was going on," Allman said. "We had a lack of mental focus and we were getting frustrated...
...team bonded so much in the middle of the season and that was extremely evident in our play at the end of the season," sophomore Natasha Magnuson said. "We were able to focus on polo a lot more towards the end of the season...
...could. I tried to listen to the messages that the various peer-counseling groups presented and ignore the distractions of the two girls whispering in front of me and the guy next to me cracking his neck and smirking in between his sighs of boredom. The presentation did not focus on addressing the gravity of sexual violence, but raised comical questions about whether or not a woman lying down on a man's bed and winking constitutes "asking for it." Although all the groups had the best of intentions, the short skits trivialized the serious issues they were addressing...
Concerned about the lack of serious discussion about the very real issue of sexual violence, I asked several of my classmates what their thoughts were on the meeting. One said she found the skits entertaining and felt they did not focus enough on the "message that rape is not the woman's fault." Another friend found the meeting "a little silly." and continued, "Everyone was laughing, including the actors." This approach, according to my friend, "makes it seem like calling the number is a joke. I don't want to call that number...