Word: recruitable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better or worse, most private Negro colleges seem likely to survive. They will continue to recruit most of their students from all-Negro Southern high schools and to send a substantial proportion of their graduates back to teach in those high schools, unable to break out of the cycle of mis-education and deprivation. (Riesman and Jencks...
...street when a ranking male dancer passes by, or Russia, where Bolshoi stars are accorded the same respect given to cosmonauts, the stigma of sissy still lingers in the U.S. Many dance schools offer free scholarships to any boy who will don tights; others patrol athletic clubs to recruit prospects. But the climate is changing: the ratio of girls to boys taking up dance, once 50 to 1, is now only 15 to 1. Even more important, the percentage of homosexuals is diminishing too. "When I first started," admits Dancer Paul Sutherland, "about 90% of the men were queer...
...basic fact behind the growing opposition to ROTC is the increasingly inescapable realization that ROTC now wants to recruit college students for mainly military careers. The implication of this is that the presence of ROTC can no longer be justified by the old arguments about the need to maintain a civilian army. As the emphasis of ROTC shifts from training reserves to recruiting career officers, the view that ROTC "civilianizes" the military--the rationale by which educators have long justified their uneasy relationship with the armed services--becomes untenable...
...that there comes a time when emotions run so high that they are best expressed in symbolic gestures, and one no longer wishes to think literally about some issues. I can say best what I mean by asking them, "How would you have felt about the right to recruit of representatives of the companies that were supplying the gas for the gas chambers...
...rather disturbed to read of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council's resolution requesting the postponement of the scheduled (February 23) visit of the Dow Chemical Corporation. Whatever one's feelings about the war, the right of dissent, or the University's recruitment policy, this resolution seems defective on two grounds. First, it singles out one business corporation for special action while ignoring other corporations which recruit here and are also involved in the war effort. Second, it represents a partial prejudgment of the question of recruitment at Harvard at a time when the Council is just beginning to address itself...