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Despite the view voiced by some admissions officers that the students provide a valuable contribution to minority recruitment, Young says the overall attitude in the office toward the student recruiters is quite negative. "Every time the key to the Xerox machine disappears, somebody says Those damn students."' This problem is only in part due to the students' performance, Young adds. Another important element is the current political climate with respect to minority rights. "These are very hostile times," he says. "People are seeing blacks under every...
...dealing with Immanuel Velikovsky one runs into certain kinds of people with voluminous literary output, painstaking attention to detail, and, lately, access to Xerox machines...
Dismissal by Xerox and unauthorized history...
...fired spies. Yet the outcry is partly Turner's fault. He had William Wells, his deputy director for operations, send out brusque photocopied dismissal slips that began "Subject: Notice of Intent to Recommend Separation." The typical reaction of one recipient: "All there was in that goddamn piece of Xerox was my notice of termination. Nothing about what I had done, not even a 'Thank you and go to hell...
Such quarrels over names may seem frivolous to casual consumers-that is, nearly everyone. But they are no laughing matter for companies that must constantly battle to protect their valuable turf in trademarks or risk losing them without compensation. Xerox, for example, spends some $100,000 a year for ads explaining that its corporate name is not a synonym for making a photocopy but the registered trademark for a specific process involving only Xerox machines. In the U.S. alone, the Coca-Cola Co. retains three lawyers to stand guard over the trademark "Coke." Other companies like IBM, RCA and Gillette...