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From the day of his arrival at Fort Jackson to start his two-year enlistment, today's recruit is treated in considerate ways that would have astonished G.I.s of the past. For example, the recruit is quickly outfitted by tailors who make on-the-spot adjustments. Instead of being shorn like a lamb, the trainee can give precise orders on how his hair should be cut, as long as it does not touch his ears or collar. He dines in a style that used to be reserved for officers...
...married," was reassuring professors that they would keep their jobs-although the college fired 25% of the faculty last spring and cut the survivors' pay by 13%. At the rear of the admissions office, students were busily stuffing envelopes and making telephone calls in a desperate attempt to recruit more freshmen next year so that the college can survive...
...moderate a discussion between two economists, NBC borrowed Public Broadcasting's Rukeyser rather than relying on its own Irving R. Levine, a former foreign correspondent whose economic reporting has been drab and unperceptive. All three commercial networks have now begun to reorganize business coverage and recruit a few specialists...
Williams seems to have had little trouble making the transition from the reservation to the University, and when she goes back home to recruit she goes as living proof that an Indian can make it here--or rather, that at least some Indians can. Her family is more affluent than most on the reservation, and her parents--who are both public health workers for the government, a job usually held by whites--have been able to provide her with opportunities other Indians have not had. But she is confident that her case has not been unusual. "I know there...
Patterson is an active member of AIH and has gone back home to recruit for them. The members of the group have "a mutual base by virtue of our being Indian," she says, "but we live our own lives." Eventually, she would like to work "in the health field" on a reservation, whether her own or another she hasn't decided...