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...seemed to fight for the sake of fighting. During his senior year at Georgetown University, Buchanan was escorting a date home and picked a tussle with two cops. "I stuck a size 10 1/2 cordovan where I thought it might do him some good," Buchanan writes. In addition to receiving a broken wrist, he was booted out of school, his scholarship was revoked, and only a sharp criminal lawyer got him off with a misdemeanor. Pop Buchanan went to the Jesuits at Georgetown and pleaded to make his son's suspension temporary, and they agreed. Pat eventually graduated cum laude...
...power-and-money elite sent their children to St. Albans (where Al Gore studied later on) or to Georgetown Prep, the Jesuits' country-club campus, out in Bethesda. Although Pat's father was a prospering accountant, many Gonzaga boys harbored a shame of the excluded, and a concomitant anger, as if we came from the immigrant servant class (as indeed many Catholics did) and were being educated, however brilliantly, belowstairs. The Jesuits' accomplishment was to redirect our aggressions into intellectual contact sports--debating, oratory...
...bands of urban Atlanta teenagers...who aren't there to try on suits." In Pelham, New York, the mayor recently called for the demolition of a footbridge that spans the Hutchinson River Parkway and links wealthy, largely white Pelham with poorer, racially mixed Mount Vernon. And Washington's exclusive Georgetown neighborhood, home to many members of Congress, opted out of the district's Metro system...
Aggressive and innovative recruiting by alumnae and alumni, undergraduate student recruiters and Admissions Office staff has also made a difference in recent years. Six years ago, we began "joint travel," in which we join other colleges in recruiting efforts around this country and abroad. Conducted in conjunction with MIT, Georgetown, Duke and Stanford, this program began by using spring travel for recruiting the next year's class. The format centers upon joint presentations to students and parents at an evening meeting, followed by a breakfast meeting the next morning with school guidance counselors. More than 600 people have attended some...
...five days. Such trips are economical because of the shared expenses of function rooms, rental cars and mailing costs. In addition, a much larger number of people will come to a presentation made by five colleges than by one. We conducted six other such visits last spring with Duke, Georgetown and Penn, and we undertook 12 more during the fall...