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...tuition, and that this investment constitutes a bequest from earlier alumni to us--a bequest which it would be selfish not to support for future classes. In some ways, we agree with you. As will be made clear below, however, our participation in the Alternative Senior Gift Fund (ASGF), is aimed at giving future classes a different sort of bequest: namely, an education made stronger not merely by financial giving, but also by consideration and effort regarding what that money will support. We acknowledge the value of alumni giving, but know that our dollars can go further when tied...
...would like to correct a misunderstanding which became the center-piece of the argument in the dissent to the staff editorial on March 18 concerning the conditions of release for the Alternative Senior Gift Fund. Contrary to what was stated, the ASGF does not include a quota based on availability statistics or any other numerical calculation in its conditions of release...
Because of these numerous difficulties in finding an accurate measure of availability, the ASGF funds will be returned to the University when a good faith effort toward achieving gender and ethnic equity is being rigorously pursued as determined by an independent board of faculty, alumni, and administrators...
...result of actively pursuing a policy of gender and ethnic equity will undoubtedly involve the faculty better reflecting current availability statistics, something which, regardless of the method of measurement, certainly cannot be said now. --Anna Baldwin '00, ASGF '97 organizer
...rethink my original reaction when about this time there was a groundswell of opinion among a group of seniors (and underclass students filled with impressive forethought) who raised these very questions about the senior gift. As a result of their quick action, last week an alternative senior gift fund (ASGF) committee was formed to solicit funds for an escrow account whose donation to Harvard will be contingent on, according to the ASGF spokespeople, Harvard fulfilling its "decades-old commitment to achieving greater gender and ethnic equity in the Faculty." Indeed, while the University commissioned reports in both...