Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...methods, and all that, something of real and revolutionary significance happened to many, many minority students. They gained pride, and they learned how to express it, to benefit from it. The other things that happened--the new courses in "relevant" topics and a renewed commitment from admissions offices to recruit more minority students, and a few other things--these things happened and have become permanent threads in the school fabric...
Carter, too, has his locker-room luminaries-like Tommy Nobis of the Atlanta Falcons and Homer Hero Henry Aaron. When Jimmy's Atlanta staff phoned to recruit Boston Red Sox Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, however, their pitch went awry. Yaz said he was pretty busy with the Massachusetts campaign of Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, a leading candidate for Speaker of the House. "Is he a Republican or a Democrat?" asked the Carter scout in Atlanta. "Democrat," replied an incredulous Yaz. "Well, tell him he'd better get on the Carter bandwagon," said the staffer. "In Boston," snapped Yastrzemski...
...problem stems, not surprisingly, from Harvard's niggardly refusal to support an arts program. Stellar high school musicians choose schools like Yale, where they can receive music lessons and other support; with no solid arts program, Harvard finds it more difficult to recruit good players. In addition, because HRO must support itself, its conductor is less likely to gamble on inexperienced players. For its continuing and unreasonable refusal to support the arts, therefore, Harvard must accept much of the blame for HRO's dilemma...
...discovered a set of data that will disprove the government's findings. While it may be true that Asian-American representation within the University is higher than that nation-wide, these students do not represent Asian-American communities throughout the country. It is in these communities that active recruitment is necessary, and the admissions offices should recognize the situation of Asian-Americans as the government does, and actively include them in all minority student recruitment and admissions programs. This effort to recruit within ethnic communities should be extended to all minorities, not Asian-Americans alone...
Although other Harvard centers have tried to recruit minority children, many have failed due to "the Harvard stigma," she added...