Re: [Leica] Re: calling on the LUG to do a good deed: leica scholarship

["Karina Klaas" <shutterbug@iinet.net.au>]

Allan,

Your comments reinforces the notion the "charity begins at home."

I sense that Kyle has empathy for this individual and he is to be admired
for that, but I have to agree with you, Allan, as cold hearted as that may
seem.  If I were to prioritise needy, this young man would not qualify.  I
think his chances of success/failure depend on how much he want to do this
for himself...

What was that ancient wisdom "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day,
teach hime how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.."

Karina

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From: "Allan Wafkowski" <allan@sohogurus.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 1:39 PM
Subject: [Leica] Re: calling on the LUG to do a good deed: leica scholarship


> What I said was the the fellow was going to pay about $28,000 a year.
> That statement appears to be true in fact, does it not? You don't
> remember me itemizing the numbers, do you? No, of course not. But this
> is all beside the point. The point is that a young man paying $28,000 a
> year to go to school, and owning (one assumes) a Leica camera is not
> going to qualify for the LUG most needy student scholarship. I can name
> three AIDS patients who can't afford their monthly medication and who
> don't receive Medicaid. I know an old lady who eats bread sandwiches
> (that's two slices of bread with nothing in between) because she runs
> out of food at the end of each month. I know two mentally ill brothers
> who live on $17,000 a year between them.
>
> Before I piss myself off, let me ask you: Do you really think I want "at
> least a $1,000" gathered for a student to go pester homeless people in
> another country because the homeless people in California aren't exotic
> enough?
>
> Allan
>
>
> On Sunday, April 28, 2002, at 12:06 AM, Matthew Powell wrote:
> > On Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 10:42 PM, Allan Wafkowski wrote:
> >> I certainly don't want to be unfair, so I checked the admissions web
> >> page. The estimated budget for a non-resident student living on campus
> >> is $29,178. Off campus: $27,128.
> >>
> >> Allan
> >
> > Including living expenses, yes. But he'd have those anywhere, whether
> > in school or out.
>
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