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...same meeting, the Council voted 9 to 7 against a door-to-door fund drive, which was to be the final effort to save the expiring German Exchange Scholarship Program, and appropriated an estimated $400 to send four delegates to the National Students Association convention in Chicago this summer...
...real problem in the current program is that the specially selected student charities have no assurance of adequate funds, and often don't get them. While the comprehensive drive has stopped many national groups from bothering students with private door-to-door campaigns, a single drive defeats one of its own prime purposes when student philanthropies do not receive enough money. Philips Brooks House and World University Service, among others, faced this predicament last year. In the absence of one easy solution, the Student Council could investigate whether to limit donations, to the selected six, or to allow...
Throughout the College the Drive will be conducted on an individual, door-to-door basis, according to DeCaro. None of the 150 undergraduate volunteers will do any of the soliciting outside of the College, he said...
Years ago, a Cambined Charities Drive was supposed to be a panacca for all the ills of student philanthropy. No longer would charity after charity pester students with its own door-to-door drive; instead, students could "give once and give generously" and then forget about charities for the rest of the year. The reasoning behind this week's Combined Charities Drive remains basically the same, but most people today realize that a single solicitation for a number of charities creates an ailment almost as bad as the former rash of individual drives. Simply stated, student donations have...
...Drive starts today for all undergraduates with more than 200 volunteers making door-to-door solicitations. Tables will be set up in Dudley for undergraduate commuters, Dorsen said...