Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Board publish a list of all unique infractions that merit any sort of disciplinary action. To maintain confidentiality, the names of the individuals involved would be omitted. This effort would make actions by the University, in specific cases, appear less arbitrary. Also, it would further the Ad Board's purpose in educating the University community, by allowing the students access to the rules that govern their lives...
Under pressure from student leaders, the council's Finance Committee agreed to accept grant applications premised on merit, properly translated as ability to spend money in accord with the student interest. The extra $3,500 from the percentage hike has been combined with last year's unspent budget to forge a new merit-based fund. Previously, the council required that the finances of groups be near zero before requesting a grant from the communal ante that it controls. Now, organizations with healthy financial records which act in the student interest are eligible to apply. Ethnic groups like the Black Students...
...terms of a merit award, it usually takes a large sum to turn a student's head," he said
Fitzsimmons said he agreed that Cornell's announced plan does not qualify as a merit scholarship program so long as it is only presented as a part of an incentive package...
Nonetheless, many student leaders were disgruntled with the process. Two weeks ago, they came before the council to call for a Student Groups Merit Fund, a separate grants fund to be earmarked for distribution on a need-blind basis...