Word: recruite
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...Livingston College has made a commendable effort to recruit black and Puerto Rican students and faculty to the new campus [April 20], but it has certainly done nothing to end discrimination against women in the academic community. The first-year catalogue of the college lists women as only 7½% of its faculty, thus making the liberal new school one of the most conservative coeducational institutions in the country in terms of equal employment opportunities for women...
Durk is seeking to recruit policemen from Eastern liberal arts colleges, hoping to improve the caliber of urban police forces...
...every able-bodied Soviet youth becomes eligible for military duty at 18, and can be called any time until he reaches 27. Deferments are rare. In any army, a recruit's life is uncomfortable at best. The Soviet army is no exception. The new recruit sleeps in tents in summer. In winter he sleeps in bleak barracks where he has a bunk, night table and a tiny cupboard for toilet articles. Once a week, many platoons visit the nearby steam bath (the traditional Russian form of bathing...
With a starting wage of three rubles a month ($3.33), the recruit usually spends most of it at his unit's bufet on candies and cookies to liven up his nourishing but dull diet. Breakfast usually consists of kasha (cereal porridge), bread and tea. Lunch, the main meal, may include herring, onions, a bowl of potato or vegetable soup with a chunk of meat in it, macaroni or beans, and more bread. Supper may be mashed potatoes and perhaps cabbage or cauliflower-and more bread. A Russian soldier consumes an average 1½ lbs. of bread...
...long as Harkness stays around Ithaca, his reputation as dynasty-builder and Red Wing coach will draw the kind of player Cornell needs to stay on top. And since Harkness will have no "official" capacity at Cornell, he will be free to use whatever measures he needs to recruit that talent. In addition, the man who replaced him. Dick Bertrand, is a walking stereotype of the Harkness player-28 years old, a former Canadian mountie who skated for Cornell last winter, and who was ineligible for the NCAA tournament. Plus ca change, plus cest la meme chose...