Word: sacs
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...former and current presidents of the Society of Arab Students (SAS) publicly complained this week of unfair allocation of grant money by the Harvard Foundation Student Advisory Committee (SAC) and stonewalling by University officials investigating the matter...
...letter alleges that Kenneth A. Katz '93, the SAC member selected to present the SAS grant application to the committee, may have had a "conflict of interest" and that the small size of the grant "may have been a case of bias...
...letter also says SAC Co-Chair Ouzama N. Nicholson '94 told the SAS students their grant had been so small because the application was not specific enough. The letter alleges that although Sahyoun gave Katz specific speakers and movies the SAC hoped to sponsor, he failed to present them at the SAC meeting...
...submitted in the spring of 1992. However, this fall we were granted only $60, whereas last year we were granted $700. The main difference between the spring 1992 and fall 1992 applications was in the person representing our case to the Student Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Harvard Foundation. Last spring, a member of the SAS, Samia Mora, represented us. This year, our representative was Ken Katz, a senior in Currier House...
Realizing that the SAS had been treated unfairly, one of the SAC co-chairs called and apologized for having assigned us a representative who may have had a conflict of interest with us. She added that our grant was so small because our application had not been specific enough. It lacked the names of the speakers and movies we were planning to present. When our grant application was first submitted, Katz contacted us and asked for these specific names. Laila F. Sahyoun, then president of the SAS, gave Katz the information over the telephone. She offered to submit a written...