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Admissions intern Lisa M Quiroz '83, for merly a minority student recruiter, says that high school counselors have often refused to see her. She recalled one man who "said no one could ever be admitted to Harvard from his outreach," When she went to the school and talked to students, quiroz found that several were "outstanding in ways which would get them...
...WASN'T a problem I particularly worried about until last summer when I worked as an intern at NPR. But witnessing firsthand the devotion that made the network what it is has made its current difficulties all the more distressing. It was a place of tremendous energy and enthusiasm. On every level, reporters, producers, technicians, people seemed to take a real pride in their work. Staying after hours to make a piece that much better was par for the course. Once a stopover for would-be commercial journalists, NPR had become state-of-the-art radio and a place people...
...matching grants for employees' gifts to their favorite schools. In part, this is enlightened self-interest: such support helps build the pool of talent on which journalism draws. But over the past seven years the company has also nurtured talent directly. Through Time Inc.'s summer-intern program, headed by Editorial Director Ralph Graves and administered by Personnel's College Relations Manager Katherine Vinton Taylor, a select group of undergraduates spend their vacation months working as full-time paid journalists, developing their writing, reporting, researching and photographic skills. For the company, says Taylor, the benefits are substantial...
...current Harvard undergraduates also have been called into service to travel around the country talking to high Schoolers in inner city school districts and other previously undiscovered areas. These students try to dispel the myth that Harvard is a snooty school restricted to bluebloods, says George Sanchez, an admissions intern, who helps oversee minority recruiting...
...shoes would set you back $40 plus, and college basketball stars look more like Georgetown University's 7-ft. center Pat Ewing, 20. For the past two summers, Ewing has been playing down his awesome height in an attempt to assume the disguise of a mild-mannered intern with Dole's Senate Finance Committee. Like other interns, the sophomore runs errands, helps out at committee hearings, does research and fits right in. Says the 6-ft. 2-in. Dole: "In Washington it's good to have friends in high places...