Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Blake, the program has yet to think about how Title IX might affect its admissions policies. And the University of Richmond is in an unusual Title IX situation. Though men and women attend classes together, they live separately at two "residential" colleges, each of which operates its own extracurricular activities and administration...
...intrigued by Jacqueline Newmyer's assertion that the "The Devil's Advocate" (FM, Oct. 7) was a "representative" account of the "power-plays" and "real-life drama" that take place on Harvard's extracurricular terrain. It is no coincidence that the manner in which FM went about writing the article was as "representative" of the extra-curricular "power plays" and "drama" which it ascribed to the Advocate. I and other members of the Advocate Executive Board declined to comment...
...stark contrast to the anti-ironic stance in our exalted extracurricular realm, our views towards academic and House life are anything but earnest or genuine. As student groups and outside commitments have become the definitive standard by which to judge one's Harvard experience, academic pursuits have become marginalized. Many of us are more concerned with the practical value of a Harvard diploma than with our own personal intellectual development...
...between those who sincerely share a sense of House community and those who bitterly remain on the outside. Those in the former group also happen to spend their time organizing House events or serving on House committees. These students are genuine in their House love because their House and extracurricular circles seamlessly coincide...
...great fear of the ironist," writes Purdy, "is being caught out having staked a good part of his all on a false hope." In some sense, our earnestness for extracurricular achievement has sapped our zeal for academic and House life...