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Re: Vice on table
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Catherine Olsson)
Fri Jan 28 16:23:39 2011
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:23:36 -0500
From: Catherine Olsson <catherio@MIT.EDU>
To: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>
CC: PiperXP@gmail.com, Charley Hamilton <charley.hamilton@gmail.com>,
Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>, apo-printshop@mit.edu,
rhkeeler@mit.edu, "apo-president@mit.edu" <apo-president@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1101281529150.2384@buzzword-bingo.mit.edu>
On 01/28/2011 04:00 PM, Leonard H Tower Jr. wrote:
> I asked Catherine several times for the goals of this reorg. And this
> group of email addresses once. Nothing that makes any sense back.
Sorry for missing your request for reorg goals. The goals are pretty
clear and can be outlined fairly simply:
- Move any tall furniture blocking the windows, to allow for more
natural light and a feeling of "openness", and to make access to the
radiators easier for maintenance etc.
- Create a large "tooling table" at the request of the chapter at CAPS,
where students can sit at a desk/table and work but not be facing away
from the center of the room, and still feel integrated with brothers
sitting at couches
- Keep the full circle of couches around the coffee table for meetings.
- Eliminate the "black holes" that result from putting deep tables
against walls, where boxes go under the table but never come out again.
Only put shallow tables against walls, and don't place tables in
corners, because boxes will get piled up against the wall under the
table and become invisible.
- Remove objects that are not providing the chapter with tangible
benefit worth the space they are taking up, broken cookware with plenty
of non-broken equivalents, books that are not relevant to the chapter's
current activities, and so on.
Again, I apologize for missing your request for the goals. I definitely
don't mean to leave anyone in the dark.
> Here's another. Get rid of the thin narrow table next to the coke
> frig (on the yellow wall shared with W20-413). Lower the blue shelves
> to the floor. Put the white shelves with office supplies and
> equipment on the table with the vice. The table also works as a
> workstation to use the office equipment. Store things underneath,
> Find other ways to use it. Add a stool so people, who wish can sit nd
> work there.
Actually, I can definitely see this working! I guess I just hadn't
considered removing the thin table because it so nicely met our "shallow
table" objective above, but you're right that it may not need to be there.
I will investigate this when I get back to MIT on Monday - it may well
be the solution we're looking for =)
And again, I apologize that you feel I'm making things unreasonably
difficult for you. I'm aware that many of the proposed "solutions" would
make your work much harder, and that's precisely why I haven't accepted
any of those solutions yet and am still soliciting input.
Thanks again for your patience!
YiLFS,
- catherio
