Word: school
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to promote active school spirit, the Harvard Undergraduate Council tried to coordinate informal athletic events with its Yale counterpart for students at both universities...
...created scenes of despair as 'Pokemon'-obsessed youngsters in tears had their parents driving from one restaurant to another in search of the coveted giveaways...." "A studio spokesperson said she knew of several instances in which 'people were going in and buying out (movie) houses for their entire elementary school for Saturday morning.' 'These were real moms who had gotten together and decided to do this,' she added...." "The Pokemon frenzy may have even driven youngsters to crime. In the Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Palos Verdes, authorities reported Friday that two boys, ages 12 and 13, were arrested this...
...Burton's career began in 1976, when as an 18-year-old, the Burbank, Calif. native won a scholarship to attend the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), a college founded by Walt Disney and featuring a program that, at that time, served as a training school for prospective animators. He joined Disney in 1979, working as an animator on The Fox and the Hound. Though he disliked the film's style and very little of his own work was used, he was hired as a conceptual artist for the studio's 1984 animated film The Black Cauldron, though...
...part in a tradition that TIME Austin correspondent Sam Gwynne calls "sacred:" Erecting the bonfire that's burned on the eve of the hotly contested Texas vs. A&M football game. For people who didn't grow up submerged in Texans' nearly religious pigskin tradition, the idea of a school-sanctioned project that compels students to climb all over a 40-foot structure brings up some elementary questions of accountability. Why are students allowed, and even encouraged, to spend 10 nights each fall building what amounts to a giant campfire, despite the fact that there have been at least...
...administration is moving cautiously on the accident, keeping clear of any language that might imply liability. They realize that after the initial shock wears off, people - both parents and students - will question the school's level of responsibility for the safety of each of its 43,000 students. So even though, as Gwynne emphasizes, the bonfire construction is far from a haphazard procedure, - a faculty member supervises the construction and engineers stop by the site - it's human nature to hunger for an explanation for tragedy. And in this case, tradition, no matter how long-standing, may not be enough...