<p>Ah! Calumny! I win by default!!!</p>
<p>Where is it? Did you delete a post?</p>
<p>Ask youyrself this, when Ms. perhaps by then Dr. DeLorenzo is forty or fifty, will she look back on her action with pride?</p>
<p>Will she want her children to attend Dartmouth? One would suspose not.</p>
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<p>This describes Delorenzo perfectly. She bullied the Dartmouth community. The rather snarky responses were those of a community reacting to bullying.
4 and 2 apply most particularly to her.</p>
<p>^^^
Demonizing the victim just doesn’t fly with me.</p>
<p>She is NOT a victim.</p>
<p>I have as much authoriity to claim that as you do to claim she is a victim.</p>
<p>I hope she continues her pattern of behavior. It will take her far in the “real world”.LOL</p>
<p>I posted way back in the hinterlands somewhere but as this discussion is still going…to me the “fundraising” plan described here is a CHILDISH GAME. Stuff about how it is “required” to have 100% participation or whatever, I don’t care.
I’m with the girl, I don’t deal at that level.
Courteous, spirited fundraising efforts are expected; pressuring, silly methods should not be condoned. Don’t have time for it.
Donate to places that have respect for you. There are plenty of worthwhile nonprofits that also employ respectable fundraising systems.
You don’t “owe” an immediate donation to a secondary institution that admitted you (as a student).</p>
<p>How many non-profits have educated and nurtured you intellectually for four years at a financial loss?</p>
<p>Secondary? Isn’t that high school?</p>
<p>If only there were some way for colleges to weed out applicants that consider fund raising a “childish game”!</p>
<p>You probably thing the “tailgateing” that goes on at Ivy League, Big 12,
Southeastern Conference, etc. has no revelance to what happens in state , local, and even internationsl business and politics.</p>
<p>If my name was published in such a manner, the person who gave my name to the paper would use lose of their tongue, and the writer would lose use of his hands.</p>
<p>if they’re doing it at a loss then my state’s doing something wrong</p>
<p><a href=“Bloomberg”>quote</a> – Private research universities in the U.S. spent twice as much as their public counterparts to teach each student in the 2007-2008 school year, widening a cost gap that can make private colleges unaffordable to students without financial aid.</p>
<p>The private institutions, on average, laid out $19,520 for each student for instruction that year, a 22 percent increase from a decade earlier, the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity & Accountability, a Washington- based nonprofit research group, said today. Public universities spent $9,732 for each student, up 10 percent in the decade, according to the report.
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<p>I don’t think those top privates(like Dartmouth) are doing anything wrong. They are offering top notch education to many students who have the privilege to attend.</p>
<p>$10K per student? That is highway robbery, but then again, it is a cartel after all…</p>
<p>The “lone” Dartmouth senior is hardly “alone.” The majority of Dartmouth’s 56,000 undergrad alumni don’t give:
“The undergraduate alumni annual fund giving rate in 2009 was 46 percent,” according to [Dartmouth’s</a> own website.](<a href=“Dartmouth”>Dartmouth)</p>
<p>Seventy percent of all alumni (not just undergrad) participated in a recently-ended, special 7-year fundraising campaign. That’s an excellent participation rate, but still leaves 30 percent who did not participate.</p>
<p>What exactly is Dartmouth trying to prove with its 100% participation rate? That is has more school spirit and “sense of community” than its peer schools? Duke’s highest Senior Gift Participation rate was 69% for instance. I never got the impression that participating in the Senior Gift was some huge indicator of school loyalty or passion. In fact, some seniors I knew at Duke withheld their donations because of silly scuffles they got into with the administration even though they LOVE Duke to death.</p>
<p>At any rate, I have a hard time believing that any school can ever achieve a Senior Gift participation rate above say 90% without some major force or coercion being applied. A perfect participation would indicate that every graduation senior absolutely adored their Dartmouth experience and the would wholeheartedly recommend the school to all prospective applicants. This can’t possibly be true nor is it healthy if its true.</p>
<p>All universities need to have some sort of frame of reference with regards to how to improve. Dartmouth’s administration and student body seemed to be hellbent on portraying this image of perfection and masking any sort of dissent towards the university.</p>
<p>I think Dartmouth’s motto is a “A Voice of one crying in the Wilderness” ironically enough. Laura DeLorenzo has shown herself to be worthy of a Dartmouth diploma, but are the rest of her classmates just as deserving? That is the golden question.</p>
<p>The nebulous concept of community at universities is really a form of ersatz tribalism. This would imply a standard of normative behaviour, of which a violation would result in a sanction as seen here.</p>
<p>It’s absurd, not befitting a civilised people, and quite frankly an excuse to spend money on stupid things.</p>
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<p>Even if it was coercive, it’s hardly the same as Nazism. 25 million people DIED in WWII; IT IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS THAT YOU WOULD DARE to compare something that happened to a scholarship baby who REFUSED to help the school who lifted her up out of poverty (at the expense of other, donating students, of course!!!) qUITE frankly, this young lady should be made to handwrite an apology note to each and every full-pay parent and alumni of the university or forfeit her scholarship.</p>
<p>Godwins law emerges.</p>
<p>It didn’t “emerge”; I was responding to the people earlier who compared what happened to this girl to Nazism, fascism, and/or Marxist-Leninism. I find that hyperbolic description of a college’s business practices a little repugnant and I felt the need to point it out. Sorry if it went over your pretty little head a bit there.</p>
<p>Wow-- ratchet the snarkiness down a few decibels there Gertrude. Sheesh. You are new here (or maybe an oldie retread, which seems possible). Might consider a slightly different approach. Just sayin’</p>
<p>I apologize; I shouldn’t have snapped at you like that. I just hate when people throw out Nazi comparisons to every little damn thing that happens. Yes, posting someone’s picture in the school newspaper is rude, but it’s so far removed from anything that happened at Auschwitz that it’s an insult to survivors and their families to even attempt to juxtapose the two as they’re even remotely similar.</p>
<p>Apology accepted. I didn’t see another poster’s comment from apparently a week ago. I saw yours. And around here when the conversation turns to nazi comparisons, the thread usually tanks and is subsequently closed. Better to point out Godwin’s law (as I did) if/when the comment is made, indicate its inappropriateness, and/or report the post to the mods.</p>
<p>** BTW, curious that you referred to my “pretty little head”. Most “new” posters think I am a “he”, but not you. Hmmm…</p>