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...Recruiting] has worked for all the minority groups but the Blacks," said Hunter M. Breland, senior research scientist for ETS. "There is something definitely wrong with the marketing for Blacks...
...Breland noted that colleges have increasedrecruitment budgets to compensate for ananticipated drop in college applications in thepost-Baby Boom era. While the number of highschool graduates has dropped since 1980, therecruitment efforts of colleges have beensuccessful in maintaining the number of studentsenrolled in four-year programs, Breland said...
...Breland also pointed to more rigorous collegeacceptance standards, the higher cost of educationand Reagan Administration cuts in federalfinancial aid for college students as contributorsto dropping Black enrollment...
...southpaw. Glory could be as hard to find as opponents. Kindly the referee cautioned Far-rain Comeaux's handlers to keep a towel handy for tossing into the ring. They asked if they might just wave it, and he said they could. They did. Then, before Headliner Mark Breland came out, poor Tyrell Biggs, 23, went six well-hooted rounds with a muscle-bound actor named Mike Evans, the Budweiser Light "champion" who tells the kid, "Hey, you'll get your chance...
...charisma and cannot punch. But the state of the division must hearten him: it is the main reason boxing seems moribund again. When Dempsey went, he was taking boxing with him. Then Louis came along. Marciano. Ali. Sugar Ray Leonard made the welterweights the heavyweights, and this is slim Breland's slender hope too. The first opponent served up to him (from more than a half foot below) was better than the best Cuban he ever fought. "He looked at me like 'Hey, I'm from Brooklyn too,' " Breland said, sorry to be so wide-eyed...