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Fundraising efforts will begin Monday when students will canvass all river houses and the Freshman Union for donations
...chores taken on by Deborah Kaplan, who also reported on the story from Los Angeles, was a canvass of Jackson's neighbors. Again that shield. Says Kaplan: "I braved iron gates, intercom mumblings and dogs, and met glares Boris Karloff would have envied. None of those neighbors would talk...
Brian Best, McGovern's political affairs officer, says that with only six paid staff members, most of the campaign money is going into television and radio advertisements McGovern is relying on about 200 volunteers to canvass and man phone banks...
Mondale's vast organization (1,000 volunteers by primary day, 31 paid staff members, labor support and hundreds of phones) did its job, reaching two-thirds of the voters in the state by phone or canvass. But after the third or fourth phone call bad gering them to vote for Mondale, some voters rebelled. As it turned out, only one-third of those contacted by the Mondale camp voted...
Scott Levenson, Canvass Director-in-training at Mass. Fair Share, has noticed an increase, not a decline, in summer staff over the last three years. "Yes, there are more students going after business and computer jobs, but there are two student job markets out there," Mr. Levenson asserts. "The students interested in political and community outreach work experience are in a different market from those in the business technical market...