Word: student
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high school junior in Madison,Wis., he led a push to get a student on his school board. As a senior, he spoke to the Wisconsin legislature and lobbied successfully for increased school aid--which ultimately amounted to $20 million...
Dressed in Hawaiian shirts, sunglasses and "No Sweat!--Union Made" hats, members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) led about 40 students on an "anti-sweatshop tour" of the Square Friday afternoon...
...horrible Backstreet Boys songs to show I was hip. All this posturing to no avail. The kids were convinced. At first I chalked it up to their own over-eagerness. As the dust settled, however, I realized that I was the one who was mistaken. In fact, every Harvard student who still believes that they are the same fun-loving slacker they were in high school is also mistaken. Ladies and gentlemen: we've all grown up, we just haven't realized...
...enough to choose the President, to fight and die for our country, to buy cigarettes and pornography. Student organizations run national events like "Evening with Champions." Let's Go--written and published exclusively by Harvard students--is the number one budget travel series in America. Every year selected theses are deemed worthy additions to the body of knowledge. In light of these accomplishments of organization, commitment and intelligence, the campus-wide preoccupation with not becoming adults--which I share--seems delusional. We're already doing all the things that adults...
Even if you're not a student who treats their extra-curriculars or their school work like a job and even if you don't spend 70 hours a week at the Advocate, Phillips Brooks House or Cabot library, you're still an adult. Want proof? When you're in a book store, do you shop at the "young adult" section? When you sign an official document does your guardian have to sign it also? When you go away for the weekend, do you have to call your mother and tell her you got in safely? Are there name tags...