By: TommyS

TommyS
Thu, 06 Nov 2014 14:58:00 +0000

If OSU cared about this issue -- and they should, obviously -- they'd start a campaign discouraging students from donating cash directly to the homeless. They should encourage kids to donate only to shelters -- and the school could say this enables them to get tax deductions and to avoid suspicion of dodging the gift tax, or some other bureaucratic mumbo jumbo. A lot of students think they are pleasing their thought-masters in the education system by giving to "the poor", but if the school told them it was actually bad for the homeless, they'd be happy to stop, or to give another way, I would think. But the school is too short-sighted to care. Do you know what a turn-off it is to bring your 16 or 17 year old to tour OSU and to be accosted by these people?