[5624] in APO Printshop
Re: pledge requirements and the press
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell E Berger)
Sat Feb 14 23:58:39 2009
To: Matthew S Goldstein <austein@MIT.EDU>
cc: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>, Samuel Evans <s_evans@MIT.EDU>,
apo-printshop-manager@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:54:31 EST."
<Pine.LNX.4.64L.0902142252160.9845@way-mo-money.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:58:34 -0500
From: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
There really shouldn't be any ambiguity here. The requirement, both
for pledges and brothers, is (if I remember the wording without looking
it up) that you must "learn, practice, or teach a Chapter skill." A
training run is unquestionably learning. A qual run is definitely
practicing and probably some more learning. So, each of them qualifies.
And of course the committment involved in doing just a training run
in the printshop is greater than that in most of our other chapter
skills, so if we didn't normalize, it'd be unfair to people choosing
the letterpress skill that they might not satisfy what the pledge program
wants them to do if they don't also get their qual run finished, though
they may well have put in more time than someone who chose another
skill and was finished in less time.
Mitch
> Yes, a training run is sufficient to complete the skills requirement
>
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Leonard H Tower Jr. wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:46:01 -0500
> > From: Samuel Evans <s_evans@MIT.EDU>
> >
> > 1) The last pledge ceremony is tuesday the 17th
> >
> > thanx
> >
> > 2) I don't know who controls the criteria for chapter skills. Do I?
> >
> > let's ask austein!
> > the president knows all!!!
> > (matt: start with my 2nd question below)
> >
> > i had assumed the pvp would know.
> >
> > i had also assumed that just a training run was sufficient up to now,
> > but it occurred to me, that not being able to use a skill, might
> > indicate you don't have it?
> >
> > requiring the qualifying run would almost double the time
> > required
> > from ~8hrs to ~14hrs
> >
> > thanx
> >
> > yiLFS -len
> >
> > --Samuel
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Leonard H. Tower Jr. <tower@alum.mit.edu
> >wrote:
> >
> > > hi samuel,
> > >
> > > two questions
> > >
> > > 1) the last pledge ceremony is tue 17 feb 2009?
> > >
> > > 2) is it still the case that passing just a training run in the APOster
> > > press shop fulfills the chapter skill requirement in the pledge policy
> > > for a pledge?
> > >
> > > note that one has to also pass a qualifying run to be able to use the
> > > press by yourself
> > >
> > > thanx
> > >
> > > yiLFS -len
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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