Word: students
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student Council has a new Charities Drive plan. The Council has incorporated some very good aims in it, but whether or not the drive will get them the money they want is anybody's guess...
...catch-all drives, instead of the present system of one big drive in the fall and sporadic individual charities later in the year. The new arrangement will suffer from the lack of incentive in a second Council drive compared to the special appeal that was successful for the World Student Service Fund and the displaced persons. But it is hoped that allowing the student to divide his contribution during the year will increase the total amount...
...make-up of the contribution card will have two effects: it will give added emphasis to student charities and will reveal the proportion the Council spends on purely administrative expenses...
Emphasizing student charities is a good idea. Each such charity will be listed as a separate item instead of receiving its funds from the Council's budget. PBH will also be listed separately instead of receiving its usual fixed percentage of the total. In case any of these do unexpectedly poorly, the Council plans to use the usually large unallocated funds as a leveling influence. The well-publicized national charities will appear as a single item at the bottom of the card. Students can fill in the particular charity they want to give...
...Council's request for 20 percent of each contribution is for administrative expenses and non-charity committee work. It will be made clear that the student does not have to give this if he doesn't want to. The figure is reduced from this year's 30 percent, which included several charities...