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...think that initially people may have had some questions” about whether to withhold donations, she said. “In the end people made the decision based on the merits of Senior Gift...
Terry said the initial response to their campaign, which originally called for students to withhold all donations, was “both positive and negative.” After conversations with students including Victor A. Amoo ’05 and Jane Kim ’05, Senior Gift Plus organizers decided that instead of discouraging donations, they would encourage them—but to a separate escrow fund that would be directed to Senior Gift when Harvard divested, and would otherwise go to the Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights...
...move was designed, Terry said, to “show people that we’re really serious and not just trying to be cheap”—to head off the criticism of Senior Gift Plus he and others were expecting. “The counterattack was really, ‘oh you guys basically just want to save money, and be on a moral high horse or grandstand...
While alternative gift campaigns have existed in past years, Gallo and her co-chair Stephanie N. Kendall ’05 said Senior Gift Plus was unique in its implementation...
...campaign sparked heated debates on campus e-mail lists, with Senior Gift Plus supporters going head to head with the House representatives for Senior Gift. In an op-ed in The Crimson, three student leaders of Senior Gift called it a “unifying and undauntedly positive” experience for seniors...