Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/28

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: calling on the LUG to do a good deed: leica scholarship
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:45:26 -0400

What do the lady eating bread and the patients who can't afford AIDS drugs
have to do with whether a particular photo student warrants help? Kyle
hasn't suggested that the LUG try to eliminate poverty, or the high cost of
prescription drugs.

Now, if what you want to suggest is that IF the LUG is going to support a
photo student doing a project, we should support a student struggling to
attend a community college somewhere, that is another matter entirely. And
an interesting one at that.

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Allan
Wafkowski
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 1:40 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
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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