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...minority enrollment in typical "feeder" colleges for the Business School has been rising since 1970, resulting in a larger pool of qualified applicants, Meyer said...
...someone else's desk. The Detroit News has added something new to the list: selling papers. For every 13-week subscription a staffer can peddle, the News announced last week, he or she will earn two points toward a catalogue full of gifts, from a Rubbermaid bird feeder (six points) to a digital watch (100 points...
Liaisons did not necessarily mean love affairs. Before he became publicity-shy, Hughes knew how much mileage he could get from being seen with the right woman. Says Bill Feeder, who was director of RKO public relations when Hughes owned the studio: "Sex and showmanship were the same thing to him. The romance stories were a lot of baloney." Hughes spent plenty of time in public with his star Jean Harlow-but no time in private, according to people who knew them both. He was put off by the blonde bombshell's four-letter-word vocabulary. He explained earthily...
Schenk and Rowe both contend that the damage could extend far beyond the site itself. Forging an access road through the garden, they say, and rolling in heavy construction machinery is bound to destroy shrubs and feeder roots even if few trees are chopped down. Moreover, they say, construction workers may not operate with perfect delicacy...
...GSAS has already undertaken a less ambitious program, whereby the primary GSAS feeder schools will submit to participating graduate schools the names of all highly qualified college seniors as potential applicants. One GSAS administrator has already said she objects to making this program nation-wide, because the GSAS applicant pool is and should remain highly selective. Statements such as this one defeat the purpose of a recruiting plan, for students at the highly selective feeder schools are certainly not the ones who need to be pulled into the applicant pool. It is the students at state schools and less prestigious...