This year's Ivy Council is also responsible for IvyCorps, an Ivy-wide community service project that will take place on April 8.

Campus Life Committee Chair Stephen N. Smith '02, who is organizing Harvard's IvyCorps effort credits "Ivy Council contacts" with making the event happen.

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Ivy council critics applaud these efforts, but say they still wonder if these innovations are worth $1,000 per year in a time of financial difficulty for the Undergraduate Council.

"We were right to allocate the money for the Ivy Council this year," Orr says. "But we need to look very, very carefully at whether to keep allocating money next year."

Two years ago, Darling says, the Undergraduate Council came very close to withdrawing from the ivy council. But he says now that the group seems to be producing some concrete projects, such a withdrawal seems highly unlikely this year--despite the Undergraduate Council's budget problems.

Darling says another reason the Undergraduate Council may be reluctant to pull out of the group is that Ebbel, a Harvard student, is the group's overall president.

But despite these considerations, Darling says he expects some council members to push for reevaluation of group membership in the spring.

He says he does not think the Undergraduate Council will withdraw from the group, but that every semester Ivy Council delegates must work harder and harder to justify the expenditure, as more student group grant requests are turned away.