Word: meritably
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...laissez-faire housing makes your stomache turn, here's another fair solution: housing based on merit. When Phi Beta Kappa keys or summa and magna degrees are awarded, few people question how deserving the recipients are. If academic achievement and distinction are the currency of the Harvard community, why not let this success principle determine the housing system...
...merit-based system also might be unfair to students who, recovering from a freshmen slump, brought their grades up during their upperclass years. A built-in "Horatio Alger clause" would clearly be in order--entitling those with rising grade point averages to bump slumping students from their rooms...
...virtually decriminalized in some states and cities. Says Los Angeles Labor Lawyer Glenn Rothner: "Termination for marijuana use, or worse, for simply having minute traces of marijuana in the body when tested is sentencing these employees to the equivalent of corporate capital punishment for an offense that would only merit a $100 fine in California...
...military is deeply divided in its allegiance. Officers loyal to Ver have been given promotions, plum assignments and extended tours of duty beyond retirement age. Critics of Ver, finding their advancement blocked by aging generals and a system that rewards political connections rather than merit, have taken their grievances to the press. They accuse their senior officers of encouraging graft and corruption, of human rights violations, interference in elections and a general lack of professionalism. They almost unanimously point to Ver as the man responsible for the military's lack of cohesion and poor morale...
Cornell's action is only the first step. Other universities must stand firmly behind the peer-review process if quality scientific research and the merit basis of the funding system is to be preserved...