Word: stigmas
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...Confide in people. Forget about the stigma. A few people need to know what you're going through so they can help. For example, a recent college graduate with bipolar disorder got extensions on papers and exams through her academic dean. She also counted on close friends to check up on her when she missed a class or failed to answer her phone...
...definitely think that there's a stigma attached to being from Harvard Law. People will associate him with the corporate trainer [who won the last series] and see him as part of that professional culture," said Dennis...
...dreaming to the folks on their country's cultural margins or, more specifically, to those intent on sharing the margins' insights with the mainstream. A gifted preacher has pulled African-American Pentecostalism onto center stage--and attracted the attention of white presidential candidates. A priest-academic has taken the stigma of Hispanic otherness and transformed it into a triumphant Catholic theology of mestizaje. A university professor, using her own life as an illustration, is opening Tibetan Buddhism to a large audience of African Americans...
Both Porter and Smith are interested in expanding the influence of the club on campus, in spite of what Smith says he perceives as the stigma associated with being Republican on campus. Smith has plans to start an internship program for members in the future as well as to increase the membership of club and visibility, a goal parallel to Porter...
...level of secrecy concerning grades here is ridiculous. Reducing the tiers would not only help eliminate the sense of arbitrariness in grade assignment that students feel, but would also help eliminate the stigma associated with discussing grades," Kassabian says...