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Exclusion of other national charities in the specified list of fund recipients is a feature new to this year's drive. The Council decided on this course "not because it considered these causes unimportant, but because at the present time the plight of the student's of the world was deemed more immediate...
...allocating a portion of their combined charities campaign to the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, the Student Council supports the attendance of negroes in non-segregated colleges and universities for the first time...
Another major change is the arrangement of charities on the solicitation card. In an effort to emphasize student charities, as opposed to national ones, only special student appeals are listed separately. National and local charities such as the March of Dimes, Red Cross, and Community Fund, are lumped together at the bottom of the card with the statement that the contributor should single out those to which he wishes to give...
This provides a new emphasis which greatly improves the character of the drive. Appeals such as the Salzburg Seminar and World Student Service Fund rely exclusively on student contributions. The College's donations are needed much more by them than by the larger charities, which do not have to rely on this drive alone to reach the students. Although the new arrangement makes it difficult to answer national appeals, it is the only way that student charities can effectively be stressed...
Once again the Council promises that this will be the College's only solicitation this year. Emergencies forced the Council to break this pledge the last two years. It is hoped and expected that the new arrangement of converting unallocated money into a reserve fund will enable the Council to live up to its promise...