The annual Senior Gift Fund will once again have competition this year.
Two students launched a campaign yesterday that aims to provide charity-minded seniors with an alternative to donating to one of the world's wealthiest universities.
The Alternative Senior Gift (ASG) will allow seniors to donate to a needy charity rather than--or in addition to--writing a check to Harvard.
"I do not think the Senior Gift is a bad thing," said Joshua A. Edelman '00, co-founder and co-president of the ASG. "But I do think that they monopolize the discourse of charity giving on campus."
Edelman and Greg A Novak '00 decided to form their organization, noticing ads for the Senior Gift Fund in which the Class of 1999 challenged the Class of 2000 to exceed last year's record-breaking donation.
Disturbed by the thought that many students who otherwise don't donate to charity would give money to the Senior Gift Fund simply because of its high-profile campaign, Edelman and Novak said they wanted to create a valid alternative.
"I would venture to guess that for most students, the Senior Gift campaign is the only charity they donate to in the course of their senior year," Edelman said.
But Harvard hardly counts as needy, they said.
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