Word: funded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preparing for the annual circus that will surround Harvard this June. The year-book committee is signing up seniors to have portraits taken. Elections are under way for Harvard and Radcliffe Class Marshals. And soon, the College will start trying to coax students to give to the Senior Gift Fund...
When I learned about the Senior Gift Fund during my first year, I was greatly irritated. "My mother pays an obscene amount of money for me to come here," I squawked. "Now they want me to pay even more?" I angrily vowed that I would not donate a single dollar to the College when the time came to give. Simply attending Harvard-Radcliffe was expensive enough. Besides, my measly little contribution would never be missed next to the more generous gifts of more prosperous students...
...most obvious answer is the Senior Gift Fund. But I question handing over my hard-earned token of thanks to the first hand that asks for it. After all, as much as Harvard-Radcliffe has given me, I still feel like I've been short-changed in many respects: a lack of women offered tenure, overcrowded lectures, a set of Core offerings that is beyond pathetic. Considering Harvard's reputation, these grievances are not trivial. If money talks, maybe I should make mine speak as loudly and as clearly as possible...
...Alternative Senior Gift Fund (ASGF), started two years ago by Megan Peimer '97, was a cause I sincerely wanted to support. The University will not receive the money donated to the ASGF until the number of tenured female professors matches the number Harvard once claimed would be hired. The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard is currently responsible for the money donated to the fund by the Class of '97. No word has yet been issued as to whether the Class of '99 will be asked to donate to the fund...
...sick of Harvard Square--the parades, street fairs, Andean musicians, jugglers and both CVSes. I'm sick of the Harvard Square Defense Fund...