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...difficult to move a whole nation, though. So we do what appears to be the next best thing--supporting organizations, such as USA for Africa and Oxfam, which work to alleviate famine in the world. Even Harvard students try to do their part. One of the biggest events on the calendar of the pseudo-socially-conscious is tonight's Oxfam fast. But if it's too late to do anything about this year's event, take my advice: never take part in another Oxfam fast again...
There are three reasons for my blasphemy. The first is the question of practicality. When a student signs away his dinner, Oxfam nets a whopping $1.30 out of the six bucks the dining hall charges...
...dining service says it can only give Oxfam the portion of the food bill that actually goes toward the cost of food. Dining hall employees would still have to be paid even if every student on campus were to donate their dinners to Oxfam. That's fair enough, though I have to wonder about the quality of the food in a full-course dinner when it only costs...
...does nearly every faster do on the night of the big fast? Go to Bartley's or Pinocchio's and blow five or six bucks on dinner. It would make a lot more sense to endure the dining hall dreck one more night and just give the fiver to Oxfam...
...extra money that would go to the hungry if we avoided the pretense of the Oxfam fast could go a long way to easing further the problems of world starvation and deprivation. Those few extra dollars--multiplied by hundreds or thousands of students--could build a small teaching hospital in Guatamala, or feed Sally Struthers for a week...