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...field, KGB agents prepare annual plans that project, among other things, the number of collaborators they will recruit in the coming year; their performance is judged against the plan. Blackmail is a favorite recruitment tactic, with sex and drugs the standard come-ons, but sometimes other pressure is applied as well. Last month Iranian Major General Ahmed Mogharebi confessed that he had spied for the KGB after Soviet agents threatened to reveal his past membership in Iran's outlawed Communist Party, Tudeh. The leader of the Iranian spy ring, a government official named Ali-Naghi Rabbani, had sophisticated radio...
...interview last week, Jewett explained that the function of Harvard's trips to prep schools is not primarily to recruit, but to provide each applicant the staff interview to which he is entitled. "If you're going to talk about would resources of time and effort, to have a hundred Exeter students making a trip down" is a much greater waste, he said. Harvard does not grant interviews to prep school students when they visit Harvard...
...that the students don't appreciate the need to establish a certain appearance of professionalism. Thus, the other reason for the decision on the phones was something the students viewed at the time as another strip of that bureaucratic red tape. Setting up dates on the phone to recruit at a school looks unprofessional, Young says, adding that he insisted students write the school guidance counselors a letter first, "with a 'cover' letter from the dean, so as to give the students some legitimacy...
Young says he has also received "lots of complaints from guidance counselors about the ineptitude of student recruiters. One guidance counselor even told me that he wouldn't permit 'incompetent' students to recruit in his school any more...
...even be realistic to expect students to run a broad recruiting program. Jean Camper Cahn, dean of Antioch School of Law, says that from her experience with Antioch's minority recruitment program, she believes minority recruitment is a job requiring professional expertise. With minority students making up 30 per cent of the law school's student body, Antioch operates an unusually successful minority recruitment program. "I don't believe that undergraduate students are in the best position to recruit for a college or university. They often lack both the maturity and general knowledge about the institution," she says...