Council member Kyle D. Hawkins '01 suggests that Undergraduate Council members could get the same information they obtain at the conferences for free elsewhere. Ivy League student government presidents could e-mail and call each other, he says.
And Darling says much of the information delegates get at Ivy Council conferences could be obtained by for free by checking the various Ivy
League colleges' websites.
The Ivy Council's detractors acknowledge that the program has some merit, but emphasize the need to see results from the program soon.
"I don't support using student money to pay for some council members to go off to another Ivy college and have a fun weekend," Hawkins says.
In Defense
"We have yet to see everything the Ivy Council can do," she says.
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