Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board of Director of the Harvard Combined Charities would like to clarify the new Student Council decision (reported in the December 4 CRIMSON) regarding "recommended charities" which we place on the solicitation card and the rule concerning their administrative expenses. In the past the Combined Charities could not place on the card any organization whose administrative expenses exceeded ten percent of its annual budget...
This year there were two charities which we wished to recommend but could not if we interpreted the restriction literally: the National Scholarship Fund for Negro Students and the Salzburg Seminar. Two considerations stood between the rule and a fair analysis of the charities...
...Council has not revoked the ten percent rule, but merely has modified it to require a detailed explanation of the budget of any charity which we place on the card not meeting the ten percent qualification. David M. Dorsen 56, Edward M. Strasser '56 Co-Chairmen of the Board of Directors
Last Thursday night the Student Council took all the meaning out of an important Combined Charities ruling made in 1952. At that time the Council had set up certain criteria for organizations which were to receive its tacit endorsement by being listed on the solicitation card. Its ruling stipulated that charities, to be so listed, must be student oriented, must be partially dependent on student funds, and must spend no more than ten percent of their income for administrative expenses. Now, however, the Council has decided to permit exceptions to the latter specification--the ten percent rule--for some charities...
Kalmus explained that any commercial advertising over the program would consist of "spot announcements" and for this reason thought participation might not violate the rule...