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Despite stepped-up efforts to recruit blood donors. Harvard's current blood drive may not meet last year's levels of the goals set for this year, according to representatives of both the Red Cross and the Harvard-Radcliffe Blood Drive...
Indians at Harvard also say they must serve as role models for their peers. "There's great pressure to perform," says Tsosie. "If you fail it's indicative of everyone else." Student recruiters must convince other Indians that they can thrive at a prestigious college in the East. When Fines toured the country to recruit for Harvard, one school asked her to give a little speech. The teacher then turned to the class and told the students to grade Fines' enunciation...
...household and I knew I could recruit him it he looked like he was considering it seriously," the father says of the son May be he even have toyed with the idea of the "exchange...
...Chicano population on Ivy League campuses faces a dilemma in trying to recruit students from the Southwest to the East Coast where there is no Chicano community and where the Chicano population at most Ivies is very small. Chicano students coming to places like Harvard do so knowing they face cultural isolation. So the dilemma, from the perspective of student recruiters and others working towards increasing Harvard's minority population, centers on the competing and frequently circular goals of attracting students by building Harvard up, while chastising the University with the hope of improving support services...
THERE'S AN INHERENT CONTRADICTION: How can one ethically recruit students to Harvard knowing that the College does not support--financially or philosophically--a counseling network aimed at Chicano students? How does one convince College officials that moral, academic, social financial and other forms of support for minority organizations help students provide without "proving" that that minority students are failing? (This is especially difficult because the University does not compile with-drawal and graduation statistics by racial and ethnic breakdowns.) If minority students are struggling at a rate different from their majority counterparts, how do student recruiters argue...