Word: focusing
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Once head of the state's agriculture and services agency and a former public defender, Bird, 49, has been a focus of conservative antagonism since 1977, when she was appointed by liberal Governor Jerry Brown despite a conspicuous lack of judicial experience. A year later she narrowly avoided defeat in a confirmation vote that California justices periodically face. In this year's election, her second, her situation is far worse. The most recent voter survey shows the chief getting swamped by nearly...
ALTHOUGH these organizations focus on diverse issues, their complaints have a common orientation--fairness--and a common target--elitism--but they lack a unified spokesman. The Undergraduate Council, which funds these groups, would seem to make a helpful, unifying spokesman. The nominal undergraduate representative would seem to be the natural leader for efforts for student justice. But students found that the council would not champion their cause. Instead of battling sexism in the final clubs, the council balked and seemed more interested in equitably representing the students who buy into elitism here than backing institutions open...
While they acknowledge that the focus on the pool may reflect underlying problems hampering minority recruitment, they add that without new minority appointments now, the pool will likely remain small...
This purposefulness and focus on the future have stripped some of the levity from the freshman experience. "They're more serious about their education," says Andristine Robinson, associate dean of students at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. "I see better grades coming out," she says, but she also found that many of last year's freshmen skipped extracurricular activities because they "wanted to get their studies together first." For students who have just survived the brutal college-entrance marathon, this competitive atmosphere is all too familiar. But others, accustomed to being stars in high school, find themselves feeling lost...
...second focus of the semester's study groups will be social change as it affects the workplace and the political arena...