Word: recruited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After 26 years of one-party rule, new political groups have been forming at an astonishing rate: as of last week, more than 100 were registered. Volunteers compile membership lists, sell buttons and recruit organizers, even though the government harasses and sometimes detains lower-level party workers. The most prominent party, the National League for Democracy, which claims a membership of 450,000, is a coalition of convenience for three of the best-known opposition figures: former Generals Aung Gyi and Tin Oo, and the highly popular Aung San Suu Kyi, the British-educated daughter of independence hero Aung...
...that the University has recognized the union, the 10-week program will get underway as scheduled in January, Bok said. Bok said that he was confident that AFL-CIO affiliates would help recruit students as they have in the past...
...blinded by its deceptive statistics or silenced by its inadequate proposals, we must clearly communicate to the administration our commitment to a politics of inclusion that will enrich the University environment for all students. And we must demand that the administration make a similar commitment to effectively recruit minority scholars. Otherwise the deception that has excluded minorities from faculty and administration positions at Harvard will continue beneath the veneer of affirmative action. A. Stephen Barr '89 William J. Seymour Society
...National Collegiate Athletic Association in Mission, Kans., last week painfully learned that lesson. The N.C.A.A. put the Kansas basketball program, which produced last year's national champions, on probation for three years and withdrew one of its 13 athletic scholarships. The reason: Kansas improperly spent some $1,200 to recruit an athlete who ended up not playing for the Jayhawks anyway. The most hurtful part of the N.C.A.A. action was its ban on postseason competition, which makes Kansas the first team to be unable to defend its title in the play-offs...
HUCTW organized the support staff using 18 full-time organizers, most of whom had been University employees, who spent each day moving around campus, talking to support staff. They distributed almost no printed literature, but relied instead on the one-on-one meetings to recruit supporters...