Colleges single out students by name for not donating to student-gift drives
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#2"Why would anyone with a normal human level of income give any money to these universities?"
Because a hot sounding woman calls you and you don't want to sound like a cheapskate.
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#3"from the schools' point of view, individual gifts are literally worthless"
What the schools want is for alumni to always be giving. Not dissimilar from venture funding, they really care about the tiny fraction of alumni who hit it big, and give tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. It's easier to get the few rich alumni to give if everyone's in the habit of giving.
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#4How impressively obnoxious. Were I singled out, I think I'd start agitating to have my fellow students revoke their pledges, cancel their checks, etc.
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#5Irritating. If you want to mandate a contribution, create a structure that does so and implement your own internal taxation. It's weak to nominate something as a donation, inferring it is optional, and then try to enforce it. Complete lack of backbone somewhere in the chain of command.
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#6I don't think it's 'irritating' or 'obnoxious'. I think the word is 'unethical'. Coercing people into giving their time or money is morally and ethically reprehensible.
I will -never- give money to any organization that does this, and I will loudly tell anyone else around about it as well.
I've seen these organizations force people into giving money when they can't afford to go without it themselves. Worse than failing to help, they are actively harming people. Whenever I see it, I make sure to let the person know that they do -not- have to give and they would be fools not to go withdraw their pledge.
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#7"Why would anyone with a normal human level of income give any money to these universities?" Because a hot sounding woman calls you and you don't want to sound like a cheapskate.
The last time my Alma Mater called me, I asked them how they got my number, what right they had to bother me at work, and to take me off their list.
You want money? Talk to the state about more funding, or raise tuition.
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#8How impressively obnoxious. Were I singled out, I think I'd start agitating to have my fellow students revoke their pledges, cancel their checks, etc.
I'd be tempted to barter. "If I'm the only thing standing between you and $100,000, I think it only makes sense to give me a thousand dollars."
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#9 from the schools' point of view, individual gifts are literally worthless
I'm a senior at a school that generally ranks pretty highly (Wesleyan University) and I hear this brought up quite a lot in the context of donations. They don't care if you only donate a dollar, but they want you to donate something.
[0] http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2010/...
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#10As a Dartmouth '10, I'm glad that people are continuing to discuss this topic. I really did feel tremendous pressure to donate this year. While I probably would have donated anyway (and I admit - it did feel good to have the class united under a common goal), I now associate the act of giving with guilt and peer pressure. Those emotions might make me less likely to donate in the future.