Word: merit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attractive and adept, it has more chance of doing serious social damage than a work which is crude and exploitive. My own favorite candidate for total suppression, of all the films I have seen or heard of, is not a "porno" film, but a work of considerable artistic merit--Rosemary's Baby. This film, which made real a universe in which the power and ultimate triumph of evil are inevitable, did more than any five other factors to fuel the cult of Satanism with its growing roll of ritual murders and assorted social pathologies. In spite...
Within the constraints of the 1973-74 GSAS budget, however, the departments cannot maintain their merit pools without cutting into need-based scholarship funds. The Kraus plan gives them the autonomy to do this--to the extent of $1000 per student. The plan has thus set an implicity priority for the GSAS--when funds are scarce, the departments will not be on the losing...
...dean's office or the graduate student body. Dean Wilcox says that he has urged department chairmen not to fund students below their calculated need, but it seems unlikely that all chairmen will heed his advice. Many of them have already complained that the Kraus plan drains their "merit pool" to its functional limits...
...they confer with other graduate schools on their mutual problem of funding graduate education, we urge the GSAS to take the initiative in re-evaluating the necessity of merit funding in a graduate program. The University converted its undergraduate financial aid plan to a need-based system years ago, thus eliminating price wars for promising students...
...mutually endorsed plan to end competition for meritorious students, will eliminate the need for merit pools. The Kraus plan merely reinforces this need. Without the burden of merit competition, the GSAS can fulfill its commitment to those students who qualify for need-based stipends, without the fear of lowering the quality of its graduate students...