The Courting of Marvin Clark: Inside colleges’ pursuit of a future star

Posted Jun 1, 2014
Many programs still recruit the old-fashioned way: through the mail. Mr. Clark has shoe boxes full of letters from colleges at nearly every level, from Johnson County Community College to the University of Florida. Wichita State also wrote—59 times. Most of those letters were never opened. Text messages, on the other hand, Mr. Clark couldn’t help reading. He shared many of them with The Chronicle. Unlike the letters, which kept a distance, many of the texts were intimate. (Houston Chronicle)

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