<p>An article in the Maroon a few years ago I believe. </p>
<p>It is my understanding that the merit aid awards given out each year - there are only about 100 full rides - were raised from a handful of donors with that explicit pupose, and accounts for the reason why we have so few (Zimmer is trying to change this). As the recent testimony by schools before Congress has demostrated, so much of the money that comes into acadmic coffers is for quite specific reasons (e.g. a gallery in the wing of the campus art museum, a new section in the Judaica library, a high powered computing center, etcetera). I understand this sentiment as my fiance and I give every year, but both only to research programs we feel strongly about, rather than the general endowment.</p>