Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Malone added that the party had been the recipient of bad press recently, particularly over the placing of advertisements to recruit people to run for the state legislature as Republicans, and that he would address this problem...
...Crimson feels it has a decent chance of winning the tournament, but it learned a valuable lesson while playing the California squads. As Bickley observed, "Those teams are really in a different league. They actually recruit players to come to their schools, much like Division 1 basketball and football schools...
...thought he'd be a tough recruit," Reycroft says. "Harvard was graduating both of their varsity goalies and we had our starting goalie coming back...
...their scramble to recruit star athletes and keep them in school, many colleges condone low academic standards for jocks. Last week an Atlanta federal jury served notice that the practice can be mighty costly. The case involved the University of Georgia and Jan H. Kemp, an assistant professor in the school's remedial-studies program. More than four years ago Kemp, then 32, complained that nine football players, all with substandard grades, were allowed to pass, allegedly so that they could play in the 1982 Sugar Bowl. After speaking out against this and other examples of classroom cosseting of star...
...what of the future of any little liberal arts college, broke or flush, in the day of M.B.A.s and corporate specialization? "Big corporations won't come to small liberal arts colleges to recruit," Ponder laments. "They want engineering students." Nonetheless, he has a plan: "We will call attention to our own, a person who can read, write, spell, think. You can teach him the technique of running your shop...