A sample of students at the University of Texas completed a form indicating attitudes toward 42 organizations, movements, and agencies in the campus milieu. Findings indicate that a positive orientation to campus life exists in general and factor analysis revealed that students use a sophisticated cognitive map in evaluating organizations. (Author)

Intercollegiate forensics training and experience are no longer relevant, nor do they provide a useful service for the particpant. The irresponsibility of contemporary forensics has taken three forms: unbelievable growth in the number of forensic tournaments and events, the inclusion of too many individual and impromptu events, and an orientation…

Spady's hypothesis that the extent of participation in high school extracurricular activities has a salutary effect on educational attainment statistically controlling on background socioeconomic statuses, academic ability and performance, is tested on 340 17-year-old males surveyed in 1957 and again in 1972. (Author/NQ)

Presents a report on club work at the Lingreen Oberschule (high school) in Greifswald. Activities include contact with Soviet schools and clubs. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The business club at Queensborough Community College started a bi-monthly publication of buy-sell advertisement to be distributed on campus. (BP)

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Chapter 11 of a book on school law highlights the legal context of extracurricular activities in relationship to sex discrimination. First, the legal issues raised by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 are examined. In general, this statute, with limited exceptions, requires that extracurricular activities be open to students without…

Student activism of the seventies has changed from the highly visible, extracurricular sociopolitical activism noted in the sixties. This study examines the high school activity patterns of 63 currently enrolled Howard University freshmen. These students tended to be more active in school related extracurricular activities than in church related…

THE RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF FRESHMEN AT A NATIONAL SAMPLE OF ACCREDITED FOUR-YEAR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE FALL OF 1961, ARE REPORTED. TO COMPENSATE FOR THE POSSIBLE EFFECTS OF BIAS IN THE SAMPLE, THE DATA PRESENTED WAS DIFFERENTIALLY WEIGHTED TO REPRESENT THE DEFINED POPULATION OF THE CLASS OF 1965. INFORMATION ABOUT THE…

TO PROVIDE SPONSORS OF EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES WITH SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDINGS WHICH WILL BETTER PREPARE THEM TO HANDLE INTEGRATED SITUATIONS, THE INSTITUTE MET FOR 5 HOURS ON 15 SATURDAYS DURING THE SPRING SEMESTER, 1965-66. THE TEACHERS, MOST FROM RICHMOND-AREA SCHOOLS, WERE PRIMARILY MALE (ABOUT 50 PERCENT), NEGRO (APPROXIMATELY 75 PERCENT),…