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[FORWARDED] UA COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND R/O -- GENERAL SURVEY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ping Huang)
Tue Jan 11 21:20:11 1994
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 94 21:19:44 -0500
From: pshuang@MIT.EDU (Ping Huang)
Reply-To: housing-survey@MIT.EDU
To: myself@MIT.EDU
X-Actually-Distributed-To: apo-news@MIT.EDU
I was asked by a member of the housing committee if apo-news is a
reasonable place to send a copy of this survey. I thought it was pretty
reasonable, so here's a copy. (Note that there are 8 APO brothers on the
committee, including its chair, John Hollywood. That alone should make
apo-news a reasonable place to send a copy of the survey. :)
If you are on other mailing lists that represent a cross-section of
MIT's undergraduates and whose members won't mind too much, consider
forwarding this survey (but only if you check your own email first to
make sure that those mailing lists haven't *ALREADY* seen a copy).
P.S. Any flames about whether this is appropriate for the apo-news
mailing list should be sent to apo-acl@MIT.EDU, and *NOT* to apo-news.
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From: jshollyw@MIT.EDU
Subject: UA COMMITTEE ON HOUSING AND R/O -- GENERAL SURVEY
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 94 21:28:24 EST
Hello! I'm John Hollywood, chairman of the Undergraduate Association
Council Committee on Housing and R/O, the UA committee charged with
overseeing all aspects of undergraduate housing at MIT. We're currently
conducting the following small project: completely evaluating every major
facet of undergraduate housing Our final report will include evaluations of
the physical, psychological, and administrative aspects of the dormitories
and ILG's; R/O in its current form; and the MIT housing administration.
We're beginning this project with a general e-mail survey, which follows.
We would greatly appreciate it if you, as president of a living group, could
forward this survey to your members.
You may have some concerns about aiding what appears to be a "search and
destroy" undertaking. This is understandable -- serious charges have been
made against the undergraduate housing system at MIT, and many of them have
come from sources that are neither objective nor credible. Indeed, this
is why we are conducting the survey -- to discover what the problems
actually are, and find constructive solutions for them.
Please be assured that we have no preconceived biases against any
fraternities, sororities, dormitories, other ILG's, or the MIT
administration. We only have the best interests of the undergraduates in
mind. If you have any questions about the survey, please feel free to
contact me at either 734-9211 or jshollyw@athena. And, if you have any
members of your living group who may be interested in joining the commitee,
feel free to have them contact me -- we are always looking for new members.
We thank you for your support!
Sincerely,
John S. Hollywood
Chairman
Committee on Housing and R/O
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Undergraduate Association Council
Committee on Housing and R/O
Undergraduate Housing Questionaire
Hello! We are the Undergraduate Association Council Committee on Housing
and R/O, the UA committee charged with overseeing all aspects of
undergraduate housing at MIT. As you are most certainly aware, there have
been many serious charges made against the dormitories, ILG's, R/O, and
the MIT Housing Administration. These charges need to be investigated, and,
if true, remedied. Therefore, we are currently undertaking the following
"small" project -- evaluating all major aspects of undergraduate housing
at MIT. Rest assured that we are not doing this to bash fraternities,
sororities, other ILG's, or the MIT administration -- we mean only to
serve the interests of the undergraduate student body. We just want to
take an objective, detailed look at the physical, psychological and
administrative aspects of undergraduate housing at MIT, discover what
the problems truly are, and make constructive recommendations to fix them.
But, to succeed in this we need your help. We are beginning this project
with -- guess what? -- a general e-mail survey. We need as many responses
as possible so that we can get an accurate picture of what is in fact
going on. We hope that you will help us by taking a few minutes to fill
this out. All you have to do is copy this survey into an e-mail
message, type the answers, and send the reply to "housing-survey".
Quick, easy and almost painless...
All information will be kept confidential -- we won't even see the
headers on the replies. Feel free to skip any questions you don't
want to answer. Thanks for your support!
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Undergraduate Association Council
Committee on Housing and R/O
<<Housing Survey>>
Residence (Include entry if applicable):
Year:
This survey has 16 questions. Questions 1-9 are about your own living
group, question 10 is about the MIT Housing Administration, questions
11-15 are about R/O, and question 16 is about your experiences with
other living groups.
When asked to rate something from 0 to 10, regard 10 as "absolutely
wonderful" and 0 being "absolutely horrific." Feel free to use the
space following each question for comments.
1. In general, how happy are you with your living group?
>>0 to 10:
2. How well is your living group taken care of? (Cleanliness,
safety, plumbing, etc.)
>>0 to 10:
3. How do you feel about the general atmosphere of your living group?
>>0 to 10:
How would you describe it?
4. How well do people get along in your living group?
>>0 to 10:
5. Have you ever been maltreated by your living group (hazed,
ignored, etc.), or do you know anyone who has?
>>Yes/No:
6. How do you feel about the level of alcohol/drug use (or
nonuse) in your living group?
>>0 to 10:
7. If you had a serious problem, could you go to your fellow
residents for help?
>>Yes/No:
Why or why not?
8. What do you think about the government of your living group?
>>0 to 10:
9. Do you think that they use your housebill or house tax effectively?
>>0 to 10:
10. How do you feel about the MIT housing staff and administrators?
>> 0 to 10:
Why?
11. The following are all concerned with availability of information
before and during R/O:
A. Did you receive adequate information about R/O when you came to
visit MIT?
>>0 to 10:
B. Did you receive adequate information about MIT's living groups
before you came for R/O?
>>0 to 10:
C. Did you receive adequate information about living groups
during R/O itself?
>>0 to 10:
D. How well did living groups provide accurate information about
themselves during R/O?
>>0 to 10:
E. How much additional information did you find about living
groups from other sources?
>>0 to 10:
F. How satisfactorily were your questions about living groups
answered?
>>0 to 10:
Feel free to use this space to comment on information during
R/O. What additional information would you have liked to have known
about living groups and about R/O itself? How can the delivery of
information during R/O be improved?
12. Did you have enough time to decide where to live during R/O?
>>0 to 10:
During your R/O, did you ever feel overly pressured by a living
group to live with them?
13. Rate the overall stress level of R/O.
>>0 to 10:
What was most stressful about R/O?
14. Overall, how positive was your R/O experience?
>>0 to 10:
Feel free to use this space to comment on your R/O in general.
How do you think R/O can be improved?
15. Is your current living group the one you chose during R/O?
>>Yes/No:
If not, why did you leave your original living group?
16. Do you have any other experiences with another living group,
R/O, or the MIT housing administration that you would like to
share with the committee?
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