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Complicated social benefit calculations, a desire to improve financial aid, or just plain old gratitude to this institution—the beauty of the Senior Gift campaign is the range of creative and genuine justifications that guide the individual decisions of seniors to give or not to give. Rolled out every year in early April, the Senior Gift campaign asks every senior to donate a nominal amount of money back to Harvard. Around the same time, dining halls and common rooms across campus fill with heated and sometimes bitter exchanges over the merits of giving.After three years of reading...
...bags, and lots of healthy food. “I came for all the free stuff,” said Alex P. Douglas ’09, who, along with two friends, left with five bags of goodies. In addition, there were raffles for a digital camera, a Coop gift certificate and an iPod. Proceeds went to Relay for Life which had a booth at the event. “We had people lining outside the door for the first fifteen minutes,” said Emily W. Hogeland ’07, who chaired the event?...
...music on my computer, checking my e-mail, befriending people on Facebook and trying to decide how long it would take me to get to my next class--all with complete comprehension of what I was reading. Our generation's ability to multitask should be looked upon as a gift, not a weakness that inhibits achievement...
Randall White, who is not related to Shelby White, resigned from a position at the NYU’s Center for Asian Studies to protest the university’s decision to accept a $200 million gift from the Leon Levy Foundation...
...USAID signs in the West Bank and Gaza portray American aid as a “gift from the American people to the Palestinian people.” If that aid is conditional on the way Palestinians vote, it is less a gift than a bribe...