Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last weekend's Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN) found some new IRC affiliates upset over the process of appointing staff people. "Everyone on the IRC is very into titles," says one, noting that positions in the model U.N. were distributed in some cases regardless of individual merit...
...Anybody who had the more important positions was given them by merit," Yappert says. "Most of the people," he adds, "who worked at the top were my friends, but they were competent. You have to have confidence in and be able to depend on these people...
...disagree with the majority's judgment that Playboy's editorial treatment of women is often sexist. We did not, however, find the ad sufficiently offensive to merit an exception to our general standards of advertising acceptability. While the majority argues that the ad contributes "specifically to the exploitation of women," it is hard to see how The Crimson's refusal to publish it will combat the magazine's sexist view of women. The Crimson's suppression of the ad merely restricted the number of applicants from which Playboy's photographer could choose without making the resulting pictorials any less sexist...
Many individuals merit credit, including Beling, the defensive signal caller, but perhaps the biggest surprise was Jacobs. He was the safety who was called upon to shut down the pitch and time and time again he dropped Penn's Denis Grosvenor and Ron Gray for losses on the right side...
Although a central GSAS financial office determines each student's financial need, the individual departments allocate their own aid funds and have some flexibility to reward students with particular academic merit. Some GSAS students have said a uniform allocation system throughout the GSAS would be more equitable...