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...Justin Martin, director of the district’s public information office, said he is creating small informational packets for each school within the district. Likening them to those used to recruit students to Harvard, Martin said he hopes they will help identify the differences between the district’s schools for every family—whether “paid lunch” or “free.” Several schools had even gone so far as to create T-shirts and buttons to raise awareness, he added...
...prophetic idea was to recruit religious outcasts--Englishmen who longed to put an ocean between them and the established Anglican Church. Some radical Protestants, known as Dissenters, had already fled to Holland. The Virginia Co. lured some Dissenters over and opened negotiations with others. One boatload of Pilgrims, blown north, landed in Plymouth, Mass., in 1620. Religious pluralism in British North America would suffer many backtracks and false starts (Virginia would develop its own Anglican establishment as time passed), but the first step was taken in Jamestown...
MILITARY $16,000 Estimated cost to the U.S. military per new recruit--spent on bonuses and expenses such as advertising, college funds and other incentive programs...
...have not discussed a review with the full Ad Board, but have done so with a few of its members as well as with some faculty that I might recruit to the committee,” Gross wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday...
Alcohol Edu’s case studies are, to put it bluntly, stupid and insulting. Their use of stock stereotypes is repulsive. The blond semi-anorexic sorority girl? The black athletics recruit? Please. Spare me. Do I care that some imaginary red-haired girl is worried that after a drunken one-night stand with a sketchy upperclassman, she might have an infection in her nether regions? Watch out, kids—especially if you’re female! Drunken sex with strangers is bad and will give you nasty diseases...