Word: melendez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Undergraduate Council Subcomittee on Nose Picking's Annual Report on the Incidence of English-Speaking Among Undergraduate Roommates, By Brian R. Melendez '86. This 400-page volume may be somewhat dense, but the Council spent $9400 to have 6500 copies of it printed up and hand-delivered to every student on campus...
...What has happened is that financial aid money has not kept abreast of the full cost of college tuitions and expenses," says Sarah Melendez, associate director for the Office of Minority Concerns at the American Council on Education (ACE). Because of recessions that have put more minorities beneath the poverty line, she says, today "you have a poorer population trying to pay a higher price with fewer dollars...
Brian C. Offutt '87, who was chairman when the council hired Melendez last year, says that he selected Melendez because he wanted the best person for the job and saw no need to give special consideration to work-study students. Since Melendez had been the council's paid executive secretary while an elected council member in 1983 and 1984, Offutt concluded that Melendez was a better candidate than the work-study student who applied...
...noteworthy that Melendez, who drafted 137 pages of Council by-laws as an eager underclassman (and pared the tome to 21 ages before graduating), is the consummate student councilor. No one knows more about the Undergraduate Council than he does...
This evidently didn't mean as much to Eisert, who succeeded Offutt at the mid-point of Melendez's reign as executive secretary. Eisert says he wanted to save money and looked for a work-study student to replace Melendez--but couldn't find...