; or (ii) if the institution does have a requirement that a faculty or staff member serve as described in clause (i) as a condition for recognition of the student organization, and an organization that meets each of the other institutional requirements for such recognition is unable to secure such a faculty or staff member, provides for an alternative to such requirement, which may include waiver of such requirement or the institution assigning a faculty or staff member to such organization. (B) Affiliation A covered public institution may not deny recognition to a student organization solely because of the organization’s affiliation with, or status as a chapter of, a national or other organization. (C) Appeal options for recognition A covered public institution shall provide an appeals process by which a student organization that has been denied recognition by the institution may appeal to an institutional appellate entity for reconsideration. The institution shall ensure that such appellate entity did not participate in any prior proceeding related to the denial of recognition to such organization. (2) Distribution of funds to student organizations A covered public institution that collects a mandatory fee from students for the costs of student activities and events and provides funds generated from such student fees to one or more recognized student organizations of the institution shall— (A) establish and make publicly available clear, objective, content- and viewpoint-neutral, and exhaustive standards to be used by the institution to determine— (i) the total amount of funds made available for allocations to the recognized student organizations; and (ii) the allocations of such total amount to individual recognized student organizations; (B) ensure that allocations are made to the recognized student organizations in accordance with the standards established pursuant to subparagraph (A)