live everywhere else ? So it??s more challenging for us to keep them engaged, keep them interested, and keep them connected and value their education. Derek Cassoff: In any typical year, 22-30 per cent of our alumni make a gift, whatever the size, so ? our alumni tend to be much more likely to make a gift back to the university on an annual basis versus most of our counterparts in Canada. That allows us to have such a robust alumni donor base so we??re not as reliant on corporations to help us meet our philanthropic objectives. McGill Daily : You said $230 million raised has been earmarked for student support. How much of that has been spent, and what does that translate to exactly?A MW: Your question??s a tough one because some of the dollars we??ve raised are endowed dollars, that every year will spin off interestA  ? and then we??ll create the scholarships, or we??ll marry some of that money with other money we have, and we??ll provide it in more robust scholarships. ? [Then] there are other donors who don??t want to do endowments??they want to do what we call ??direct spent?? ? Someone who doesn??t have $100,000 but still wants to help students, well we will tell him or her that [they] can give us a three year commitment for $5,000 and then in three years we??ll revisit ? it??s a 50/50 split to be honest, but that money is being very well utilized. MT: Are