[2042] in APO News
Service Opportunity -- Student Resource Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jshollyw@MIT.EDU)
Tue Sep 17 20:50:14 1996
From: jshollyw@MIT.EDU
To: apo-news@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:49:32 EDT
Hi, everyone,
This Sunday, a group I'm involved with is going to offer a different
sort of "service activity" that I think you might be interested in.
The group is the Student Resource Service, and we help students deal
with the MIT Administration, faculty, and other agencies. If you're
interested in "on-campus people projects" you might want to consider
this.
Our fall training (four hours total) begins this Sunday from 2-4, and
will conclude next Sunday from 2-4. After the training is over, there
is very little in the way of a formal commitment; for the most part
it's just you helping your fellow students as they come to you with
questions about MIT.
I've attached some information about this program below; if you're
interested, or if you have any questions, please let me know.
By the way: pay your dues ($15 for brothers) and your debts. ;-)
Thanks!
YiLF$,
John Hollywood
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Have you, or your friends and colleagues, ever had some sort of
problem that you just didn't know where to go to have it dealt with?
Or have you or they spent numerous hours bouncing around various
fliers, piles of publications, information desks, and agencies trying
to find out? The Student Resource Service helps fix this by providing
a network of students trained about MIT resources and how to contact
those resources. The members of this network help link students to
the resources they need to get problems solved. And, unlike a pile of
publications, we can keep providing assistance concerning what to do
if problems aren't solved on the first try.
Just look at what you can learn by becoming a member of the Student
Resource Service:
* CSS. HFS. I/S. ILA. ISO. OME. RCA. UAA. UESA. Do you know
what these letters stand for? Join us a on a whirlwind tour through
the Administration and MIT's Student Resources and find out. BONUS:
Find about neat services and people previously known only to a special
few addicted to obscure MIT fliers and listings.
* Have a complaint about some aspect of MIT? You may have noticed
that problems don't go away by themselves. You may also have noticed
that @#$!%# flames produce !@#$#@# results. Learn about decidedly
better ways to relate concerns to professors and administrators.
The schedule for the four-hour training is as follows:
1. Sunday, September 22, 2-4 pm, Rm. 5-234
Introduction to the Student Resource Service and expectations of
members. Sample situations. Communicating with student "clients".
Overview of the MIT Administration and student resources.
2. Sunday, September 29, 2-4 pm, Rm. 1-134
Communicating with agencies and faculty (requests and relating
concerns). Discussion and "role plays" of possible situations.
Summary and discussion of future plans for the Service.
What follows at the end of your training? Lots of constant meetings?
Staffing telephone lines? Spending lots of hours at a permanently
staffed information booth? Nope. We send you back out to the world
to deal to your friends and colleagues just as you normally would.
Only now, when your friends tell you about problems they're having
you'll be able to do more than make sympathetic noises. We will have
meetings about once every two weeks where we'll talk about situations
that have come up, do some exercises, and invite in guest speakers
from the agencies we teach you about. However, that's about it.
[Of course, if you would like to become heavily involved in managing
the Service, welcome!]
Enrollment for this class is limited to forty, but we still have
plenty of spaces at this point. So feel free to tell your friends,
relatives, neighbors, colleagues, compatriots, and others about this
program.
If you're interested in this program, send e-mail to resources@mit.edu
so we can send you a (brief) application. Also, feel free to contact
us with any questions you have by sending them to resources@mit.edu.
In addition, we also offer:
* The Student Resource Service Guidebook. To get it, login from
an SGI or Sun workstation and type: add institvte; getbook.
* Our web page, at http://web.mit.edu/institvte/WWW/resources.html.
Thank you!
--John Hollywood
Manager, Student Resource Service
