Word: meriting
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Vincent says he did "nothing wrong," though he concedes that it may have been inappropriate for him to be present at the student interview with his brother. Schroeder, Murray, and Young all told The Crimson they were hired on their own merit. William Li declined to comment...
...quickly denies the allegation that the Lampoon chooses staffers on criteria other than merit. "We weren't elected because we like each other. We were elected because we produce good work," he claims...
Aggressive recuiting and what she perceived to be a more tolerant campus led her to choose Duke, Jones says. A National Merit Scholarship finalist, a commended student in the Outstanding Achievement for Negroes Award and president of her school's African American Culture Club, Jones was recruited heavily by an array of top schools and was a hot commodity in the competitive college market for the limited pool of highly sought-after Black students...
FOOTNOTE: *Despite objections by several U.S. Senators, Captain Will Rogers III of the U.S.S. Vincennes received the Legion of Merit. The decoration was described as an "end of tour" award, not connected to the shoot-down. Rogers has since retired...
Theoretically, this idea might have some merit, but when the process is conducted by people like Read, who blur together the entire Eastern hemisphere, and who allow a 18-year-old kid to be dragged through a public trial for the sake of placating Greeks without gripes, Hackney should have intervened on the side of truth and justice with all possible speed...