[1742] in APO News
Weekend office hours
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Wed Mar 20 10:01:00 1996
To: apo-news@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:55:14 EST
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
Background:
Gilbert suggested (to apo-exec and other places) having weekend office
hours so that students who want to work on drop posters on weekends
(as they often do) can find us more easily.
Although it seems some people like this idea, it was mentioned that
the office can be a hard place to study, and people need to spend
the weekend studying (and going to projects and other stuff). So
currently people may be discouraged from hanging out in the office
during the weekend.
El Presidente suggested moving this conversation to apo-news to
get more people involved in discussion. (apo-news is the discussion
list, apo-announce is the announcements list, in case you forgot
like I did.)
Apologies if I misstated anything above. Below is a suggestion
I sent that people may want to think about.
YiLFS,
+ Richard
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Gilbert writes:
> I'm sure that most people including myself can get 0 work done in
> the office. I really don't know what the outcome will be. Maybe the plan
> will fail miserably, and no one shows up; or fellowship level at APO will
> become so high that the average number of years required for brothers to
> graduate increases to 6 or so..
Let's not turn APO into SIPB. ;-)
Here's an idea to consider: have "quiet office hours" during which
noisy social activities (ie, music, silliness, loud talking, etc.)
are suppressed for a few hours so that brothers and pledges can tool
dilligently in the office. This would allow the office to be staffed,
allow people to study in a decent place (as long as the Thistle isn't
shaking the whole floor), allow people to ask questions about homework,
etc. This does not mean that fellowship would be forbidden. What do
people think about this idea?
Implementation details would be up to the chapter. (This includes
when "quiet office hours" would take place, what noisy activities
were discouraged, under what special situations would allow for noise,
with what to hit the Thistle people over the head, etc.)
+ Richard
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