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What pushes that small number of troops onto food stamps is a combination of little money and big families. Consider military pay. Certainly no one enlists for the dough. A raw recruit earns $930 a month, and even a sergeant with 10 years in uniform is paid less than $22,000 a year. Nearly half the members of the Army and Marine Corps, along with 26% of Navy and 18% of Air Force personnel, make less than $20,000. And this is where family size becomes key. Close to 60% of military families eligible for food stamps have six members...
...carefully instruct our coaches on the recruiting rules of the NCAA, Ivy League, and Harvard, and they are required to pass an NCAA certification test each year before going out to recruit," the press release said...
...short respite from the recruiting process ends abruptly when school begins again, and the schools once again intensify their efforts with home visits. In these ritualistic events, the coaches generally meet with the parents of the recruit and run down a laundry list of what their particular programs have to offer. If the prospects are still interested at this point, the university pays for trips to the college campus, which gives the students a feel for the university and helps them to make the difficult decision...
Brown's violations, however are certainly the exception in the Ivy League, as most schools in the conference have a relatively clean recruiting record. Yet, not all Ivies are created equal. Pennsylvania, for instance, has generally stronger athletic programs than other Ivy schools, while Princeton manages to recruit a strong basketball team nearly every year...
Lewis said he would work to recruit Faculty members to serve on the committee as well...