Philanthropy vs. Academics: How much is too much?

[33girl]

I think that as you said, it's a campus culture issue. This really isn't a problem at some schools.

Personally, I think the best way to alleviate this would be to bag national philanthropies and go back to having each chapter choose something locally that they could do hands on throughout, rather than creating a big fundraising event. To me that really doesn't help the members learn the value of giving time and talents, it just becomes another production like rush or Greek sing or the like.