Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last night's meeting, the council picked the chairman by majority vote of its members, after five-minute speeches and a question-and-answer session. This process would be fine if the council was simply an extracurricular activity...
Here a decentralized campus life does more to segregate students than bring them together, as students gravitate toward the houses and their stereotypes and stick within the boundaries of their extracurricular peer group. Only in freshman year's randomly-assigned dormitories is Harvard's noted diversity truly reflected. Far from detracting from the house system, as critics fear, a student center would enhance campus life...
...couldn't set up tables and recruit freshmen. That was a decision made by Dean of Students Archie Epps III--who forgot to notify student groups of the change--because they wanted to give "a new flair and new form of presentation" to the tabling. They sure did. The "Extracurricular Circus" was held last Friday night from eight to midnight. Of course, besides the fact that it may have interfered with the social plans of freshmen and upperclassmen who have better things to do on the weekend than read the literature of the Society for Creative Anachronism, there...
...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 in a crowd of overachievers. Alice Pond wandered into...
Once students complete the applications,however, the work is not over, for the admissionsoffice or for the student. For the applicant'spart, he or she must try to maintain his or heracademic and extracurricular performance, but forthe Admissions Office the arduous task of paringdown the 14,000 applicants into 2000 diverseacceptances begins...