Word: membership
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American Indians of Harvard (AIH) plans to beef up membership recruitment, says Arnetta C. Girardeau '91. And the umbrella Asian American Association (AAA) will concentrate on an ongoing federal investigation of the College's admission of Asian-Americans, says AAA President Mark H.F. Kuo '90. He says the group also hopes to knit closer ties to graduate school students...
...frat house. Everyone liked Ron and agreed that he would make a good member, but they worried about what it would mean for the fraternity. Brown said little, though he let it be known that he was unwilling to finesse the issue by accepting house privileges without full membership. Finally, the fraternity brothers rallied around and initiated him. As a result, the national headquarters of Sigma Phi revoked the chapter's charter. Middlebury responded by barring any fraternity with racial barriers. Eventually, all the college's fraternities repealed their exclusionary clauses...
However, moderate animal rights groups are not gaining ground in the United States nearly as fast as the more radical ones. Membership in the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has grown from 8000 in 1983 to over 300,000 today, according to Carol Burnett, spokesperson for the group...
That qualifies as a quaint notion today. But not to Dick Schultz, 59, a basketball and baseball coach for 25 years and the NCAA's executive director for the past 16 months. He has put the membership (800 colleges and universities) on plain notice: "For willful cheating, severe penalties." Oklahoma's sentence for being caught on 20 varieties of recruiting violations includes a year's television blackout and two missed bowl opportunities (consider the potential revenue lost: just one Orange Bowl appearance is worth $2.75 million a team). The punishment prompted Oklahoma athletic director Donnie Duncan to blurt, "They wanted...
...operates in much the same way, though local lay leaders are now consulted. But for most Protestant ministers, careers advance through subtle maneuvers to get calls from bigger churches offering higher salaries. Within denominations that are losing members, mobility is limited. The Presbyterian Church, which has suffered a 25% membership drop since 1965, has 1,500 to 2,000 ministers looking for new positions but only 600 to 700 churches with slots to fill. In the Episcopal Church, which has lost 28% of its membership in the same period, full-time openings have become so scarce that some...