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...just wanted to express my frustration with the recent Undergraduate Council resolution to allocate funds to student groups practicing "Random Acts of Kindness" (News, Feb. 17). Perhaps I have misinterpreted the council's mission at Harvard, but my own goat was quite gotten by the idea that the council is here to act as the great moral reward-giver of our community. Should the council wish to contribute funds to more disorganized "acts of kindness" than those practiced spectacularly by PBHA and other organizations, I should think they might still have a well-defined criteria for what those acts entail...
Food for thought, perhaps: is a true act of kindness ever "random"? MARY CAMPBELL...
...year-old native of Ethiopia had missed three of her four final examinations the week before the murder-suicide, and had sent letters to random individuals expressing her desperation with life...
...Undergraduate Council voted last night to mandate kindness. In a 42-17 decision, members agreed to allocate $340 of the council's budget to providing "random acts of kindness" to the Harvard community...
...bill, created in recognition of National Random Acts of Kindness Week which was observed last week, requires that at least one delegation of the council perform per week perform an act of kindness...