[12373] in APO News
Re: Vote for UMOC artifact for MIT 150 exhibit!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Catherine Olsson)
Tue Nov 10 08:48:55 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:48:46 -0500
From: Catherine Olsson <catherio@MIT.EDU>
To: Catherine Olsson <catherio@mit.edu>
CC: apo-news@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4AF96EA7.5080205@mit.edu>
I spoke too soon! Big Screw is also listed and definitely deserves
votes, too =)
http://museum.mit.edu/150/entries/1144
Catherine Olsson wrote:
> Hey APO!
> One of the nominees for the MIT 150 exhibition is "Plaster cast of
> UMOC": a plaster cast of the 1972 winner, who was apparently a real
> celebrity on campus.
>
> You can read about the entry here
> (http://museum.mit.edu/150/entries/1348) and then go vote on it so
> that we get a bit of publicity! (http://museum.mit.edu/150/ballot)
>
> They also haven't yet cited APO as the originator of the contest, so
> maybe it'd be cool if we sent them more information about the contest
> and that it's still going on =)
>
> YiLFS,
> - catherio
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: MIT 150 Exhibition Survey
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:05:14 -0500
> From: Andy Kalenderian <akalen@MIT.EDU>
> To: ec-discuss <ec-discuss@mit.edu>
>
>
>
> punt and vote: http://museum.mit.edu/150/ballot
>
> I suggest you all vote unless you want things like Steer Roast and
> Project Athena to be beat out by the Baker House Icicle or the Baker
> House Purity Test; as it stands, _four_ of the top ten items are about
> Baker House, and none of them are about the rest of the dorms:
> http://museum.mit.edu/150/results
>
> From the website:
> "MIT 150 aims to capture the Institute’s unique qualities by involving
> the entire community in the interpretation and presentation of its
> most treasured objects. These artifacts will show what makes the MIT
> environment so distinctive and so productive of innovative solutions
> for the world’s challenges."
>
