hosted haiti fundraiser, junior year

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From our local overclass snoburb's high school listserv:

Please support Cupcakes for Haiti, a fundraiser being held by the Sustainable Gardening Club and the Jewish Cultural Club, to support victims of the Haiti earthquake.*

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* a tragic event, yet an awesome opportunity to lend gravitas to my ECs on my college applications

Comments

[Mike of Angle]

Awesome find--I just interviewed a couple of kids applying to Yale, and while neither of them were that craven, from what they told me, such thinking is endemic.

That is what we train our smart kids to do nowdays--not how to address the world's problems, which are taken as unsolvable, but how to spin them for their own personal benefit.

[Bryan]

The shame is that the most of the money that was raised went into the pockets to make the rich richer, taking advantage of the disaster for profit. Not to the Haitians in need.