Less Cavalier

A week before Thanksgiving, an estimated 1,500 members of the Dartmouth and Hanover community participated in the nation-wide Fast for a World Harvest. Over $3,000 was collected: about half from College dining halls rebating the cost of the day's meals at the request of some 775 students; the rest contributed by students who eat off campus, faculty and other employees of the College, and townspeople who donated the money they would have spent for food.

Most of the money went to OXFAM-America, to help people in starvationridden countries improve their own food production; about 20 per cent was sent to the National Council of Churches to feed hungry Americans.

Acknowledging that the personal sacrifice involved would not solve the problem, Tucker Foundation Dean Warner Traynham said before the fast, "... in a small way it will bring home to us, us, the well fed, the reality of hunger. ... I hope the experience of a gnawing stomach will make us a little less cavalier about the problems of others."