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...search targeted specifically at potential African-American applicants. The search was an instance of Harvard simply trying to change its numbers artificially rather that level the procedural playing field. It was not targeted specifically towards disadvantaged Black students, but just any and all Black students. Harvard should try to recruit more, and recruit earlier, in the minority community, but it ought not to waive deadlines. Although we recognize the difficulty Harvard has in attracting qualified minority applicants, we expect the Office of Admissions to observe reasonable limits in its intense pursuit of a diverse student body...
...ARMY IS LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD MEN OTHER THAN THE ones it just let go, that is. The highly publicized round of military-base closings and cutbacks is making it hard for the Army to recruit, partly because many would-be candidates assume that the military isn't looking for new people. In fact, the military needs a steady influx of newcomers to maintain its vitality. Adapting to the reduced demand, the Army has scaled back its goal of recruiting 100% high school grads to 95% -- and even that's proving tough to meet...
...only is there a shortage of Black faculty members to recruit, but the number of Blacks earning doctoral degrees has declined substantially in the last ten years, which means that even fewer well-qualified Black faculty members are available to augment Harvard's faculty ranks than before. From 1977 to 1986, the number of Ph.D.'s awarded annually to Black males dropped by more than half, a decline that was only slightly offset by a 15 percent increase in the number of doctorates awarded to Black women. And according to the National Science Foundation, in 1987 Blacks earned only...
...Growing up in the Dallas area, he was an indifferent student but an avid reader of the Bible who prayed for hours and memorized long passages of Scripture. He also played guitar -- not badly by some reports -- using rock music as well as his magnetic preaching to recruit followers. Some of the spartan interiors in the Waco compound were decorated with posters of the wild man rock guitarist Ted Nugent and the heavy-metal band Megadeth...
...would urge Mr. Heller and Mr. White to consider what they have said: "The University goes out of its way to recruit academically under-qualified candidates because of their revenue-earning potential." So now we have a cut-off point for grades? I thought that this was the place where the best came to learn, not just those who got a 1600 on the SAT's and a 4.0 GPA! Are you saying that diversity is welcome, but only if we meet some arbitrary grade standard? I'm sure there are a lot of people who are glad that...