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...Afro-American Center, originally student-run and financially independent, has not. The center could not generate enough funds or solicit enough contributions to keep itself afloat. The University did not actively pursue funding sources when the center began to founder. Moreover, students found they couldn't maintain a program of the center's magnitude without full-time staff, whose salaries further depleted available resources...
Like any responsible entrepreneur, Harvard should systematically pass some of the savings that result from cost-cutting measures on to its customers. It also has the responsibility to solicit consumer input so that it can refine the product it offers. That means more than a token student or two on administrative committees. Idealistic and worn as the thought may be, the University must listen. Not only because a student might just have something valuable to say, but, more basically, because he has the right to say it. He has paid...
...class campaign committees, steering committees, area special gifts workers, area class agents, area steering committees) will conduct scores of dinners, movie-showing sessions and telephone campaigns to personalize the appeal as fully as possible. Richard B. Boardman, director of special gifts, says that area agents will take care to solicit each alumnus for about the amount he seems capable of giving. "Contributors will be asked to respond based on the distribution of wealth," he explains, adding, "Your basic economics would tell us that there's not a bell-shaped curve of distribution of wealth, so people should respond based...
...federal support. Harper's (circ. 325,000) was saved from extinction this summer when it was bought by two nonprofit foundations. William Buckley's conservative National Review (circ. 86,000) and the liberal New Republic (circ. 75,000) have formed the Corporation for Maintaining Editorial Diversity to solicit tax-deductible contributions to help pay mailing costs. The two magazines will continue as for-profit enterprises...
...class campaign committees, steering committees, area special gifts workers, area class agents, area steering committees) will conduct scores of dinners, movie-showing sessions and telephone campaigns to personalize the appeal as fully as possible. Richard B. Boardman, director of special gifts, says that area agents will take care to solicit each alumnus for about the amount he seems capable of giving. "Contributors will be asked to respond based on the distribution of wealth," he explains, adding, "Your basic economics would tell us that there's not a bell-shaped curve of distribution of wealth, so people should respond based...