[48] in APO News
Standing Policy? (Feed the p
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (EDK)
Mon Jul 20 18:13:47 1992
From: EDK.LASPAU@mhsgw.harvard.edu (EDK)
To: APO-NEWS@Athena.MIT.EDU (-)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 17:37
>Could someone please post relevant existing bylaws/standing
>policies? Are we making a real change to the book, or reviving a
>lapsed policy?
I don't remember if it was policy in writing or not, but the proposal is
fairly close to what was practiced when I was an active. In practice,
people didn't get charged for lunch every time they signed up and didn't
show, but only when there was a large discepency in numbers that created a
problem with over buying food. People who showed up without signing up in
advance were aware that they may have to fend for themselves for lunch.
>I intuitively dislike the financial part of the policy as it
>stands because it would be messy to implement it fairly. Some specific
>concerns are listed below.
>
>Do we wish to penalize brothers when the problem is not
>ntirely their fault? For instance, PC's sometimes pressure brothers
>who really need to stay home to promise to attend a project.
The financial aspect gives brothers who are being pressured a stronger
reason not to give it to that pressure. (By the way, it my opinion it is
extremely bad form, not to mention particularly brotherly, to pressure
people into attending projects. 'No' should always mean 'no' no matter
what the context.
>People get sick, or decide they are too tired to handle tools safely.
The first is a legitimate reason to waive the charge. The second is not.
One of your obligations when you say 'yes I am going to be at this project'
is that you show up ready and able to work.
>If two people accidently buy lunch for the same project, should everyone
>else be charged double for their carelessness?
Huh? I'm confused. Under what circumstances would something like this
happen.
>If someone misses a project because they get sick, or some
>personal emergency happens, isn't it more important to encourage them
>to come on another project than to recover a few bucks?
Illness and presonal emergencies should be handled on a case by case basis.
They are part of the reason the chapter bugets discretionary funds. One
use of a discetionary fund is to cover the cost of something a brother
would have otherwise had to pay but there are legitimate reasons why the
could not or should not have to.
The financial aspects of this kind of policy are not very effective for
cost recover. What they are effective for is making people to be more
realistic about their likelyhood of attendance when they sign up for
something. In most cases, it is easier to deal with more people than
expected on a project than it is to deal with fewer than expected.
-- c.c.
(ccrazy@athena.mit.edu or ekranzer@harvard.edu)
