Word: recruit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William L. Bruce '46, vice dean and affirmative action officer of the Law School, said Saturday the Law School tries to recruit minority applicants for Law School positions. He also said he believes the Law School in "right on the target" set by the Law School's affirmative action projections for professorships...
...anarchic and free." Recalls Cleese: "They thought they were getting another latenight satire show. It wasn't that at all." Constantly testing sketches on one another, the Pythons were bent on turning English literary and verbal humor into a series of sight gags. They soon enlisted a new recruit, Minnesota-born Terry Gilliam, whose animated graphics are a favorite device for closing a sketch. "We worked intuitively," explains Cleese of those early days. "We went looking for stupid things. We just wanted to pick a few flowers...
...rebellious students complained that minorities on campus would be particularly hurt by the budget reductions and that Brown was not honoring a 1968 commitment to recruit more minority students and faculty. In an attempt to justify the sit-in, Vincent McKnight, a black senior who spoke for the dissidents, simply said, "Because we're on the bottom rung of the ladder, we just had to do something decisive...
...threatened to have "Yippie girls dressed up as whores, but young, you know, and nice" slip LSD into convention delegates' drinks, recruit "Yippie studs whose job is to seduce the delegates' wives and daughters," and spike Chicago's water supply with...
Reardon said he did not know if the acceptance rate among blacks would be lower than that among whites, adding that his staff will make "a tremendous at tempt" to recruit the accepted minority students to come here. Referring to scholarship money offered to blacks as an incentive to come here. Reardon said that "If a black kid's parents are making $50,000 a year, we're not going to offer him money to come here as some schools would...