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...What is here is professionalization. The stiff challenge of simultaneously upgrading facilities while lowering entrance fees to attract new members in a recessionary economy requires officials of stronger nerves than the blimpish club presidents of yore. Harbinger of the new wave is Andrew Mckenzie, the young chairman of the United Services Recreation Club (USRC). By day, he manages a large construction company and so brings a business brain to the clubhouse, salting his conversation with marketing speak like "strategic partnership" and "image enhancement...
High school senior Lebron James caused plenty of eyes to pop when the NBA's top draft prospect scored a reported $90 million seven-year deal with Nike even before playing one game as a pro. But James is not the only teen phenomenon to attract big corporate bucks. The same week Nike settled James' deal, the company reportedly paid $1 million to sign up Ghanaian-born soccer star Freddy Adu, who just turned 14. (Nike will not confirm exact figures.) He has been hailed as the next Renaldo--and maybe even Pele--but for now he's the rising...
...forces that keep people from participating in The Crimson are numerous and varied. One is clearly self-perpetuation: a mostly-white staff attract their mostly-white friends to help in an activity that, is, even at the national level, practiced by mostly white individuals. While The Crimson does not present a hostile work environment to minorities in any way, many who do make an effort to enter its doors end up feeling uncomfortable surrounding themselves among a group of students unlike them...
...numbers of women do decline after the undergraduate years,” Fox says. “They’re always looking for women to attract to the faculty ranks and if you don’t retain them, you’re not going to have them in the faculty ranks...
...fact is that Harvard makes such an effort to attract students who have not only good grades and scores,” says former University President Derek C. Bok. “We do increasingly get a student body [with students] who even by the time they get here have abilities as musicians, student leaders and journalists...