Colleges Use Videos to Recruit Students Nationwide
More than 60 percent of top US colleges including Harvard Princeton and Dartmouth use professionally produced recruitment videos. The MTV style trend aims to engage the TV generation as enrollments face a shrinking pool of high school seniors. Critics caution on overselling, while costs run 40000 dollars plus for production though copies are cheap via national clearinghouses.
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Jan Michael Lok
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Durham
N.C
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Franklin
College Briefs Students chase spring break on sunny getaways
College travelers head to sunny destinations with Puerto Vallarta Mazatlan South Padre Island Daytona Beach and Florida as popular breaks. Travel reps cite 18 year drinking age and cheap fares as reasons. Some travel abroad but costs deter most students.
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University of Colorado
John Mahan
Destination Travel
Boulder
Colo
Puerto Vallarta
Mazatlan
Chris Claypoll
Sunchase
South Padre Island
Texas
Mexico
Daytona Beach
Fla
Sandra Fontes
Council Travel
Providence
Florida
Georgetown approves pro-choice group after four months
Georgetown University grants G U Choice affiliation allowing funding access. Co founder Kelli McTaggart says the group is educational and seeks discussion despite opposition from faculty alumni and the Catholic church. Cardinal Hickey criticizes university alignment with Catholic identity.
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Washington, D.C
G.U. Choice
Kelli McTaggart
McTaggart
Ed Walters
the Hoya
Walter
James Hickey
Alternative spring breaks spread to help instead of party
Sharon St Marie of Barre VI and 11 Trinity College of Vermont peers fed the homeless at SOME-So Others Might Eat in Washington. Tom Scales of Vanderbilt skipped Florida partying to aid Mayan Indians in Indiantown Florida. The Campus Compact notes a surge in service oriented spring breaks, with member schools rising from 12 to 250 and about 49 million dollars in service funded in 1989 90. Daytona Beach spent 276500 dollars on police and cleanup last year.
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Barre
Florida
Trinity College of Vermont
Washington
You
Tom Scales
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Florida Keys
Indiantown
Fla
St. Marie
Laina Warsavage
Campus Compact
Coalition of Public Service
Brown University
Providence
R.I
Daytona Beach
Merrymakers
Threatening racial letters shake Utica College campus
In Utica New York a 16 line letter threatening Black and Hispanic students was mailed to campus and left on bulletin boards and in book bags. The note signed The Supreme Order Of The White Dawn prompted FBI and USPS investigations with campus dialogue and a response from administrators.
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N.Y
Utica College
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Utica
Robert Woods
Woods
FBI
Cortland State bans frat for four years
Cortland State University of New York at Cortland suspends Delta Kappa Beta for four years after pledges report hazing including beatings laxatives and chicken feet necklaces. The Feb. 21 action by Norbert Haley is final with no appeal. five members have been dismissed and suspensions are under appeal.
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N.Y
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