[1077] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: update..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rhett Creighton)
Wed Mar 13 01:04:49 2002
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:52:37 -0500
From: Rhett Creighton <rhett@MIT.EDU>
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In the past, it has been used to pay a fraternity. Why can it be used to
pay 25 "brothers", but not 500 friends? If need be, 500 of you can "join
TEP" for a few seconds.
More commonly, it's used to pay for food. At the very least, I should be
able to compensate people $10 for LaVerde's reciepts.
I hope that the people vote their conscience too, and not for mindless UA
insiders spewing the same old crap in the "spirit of the election".
BTW, we almost have the same number of first place votes you got when you
won! Ok, sure your election had 3 revotes, but we're write-ins!
http://election.mit.edu
Hi ho!
Rhett
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Peter Shulman wrote:
> it might be worth mentioning, as a former UA President, that the "Bush
> Fund," which has received much publicity over the past few days,
> cannot -- by any stretch -- be used to buy votes.
>
> the fund, while _originally_ designed to provide incentive to the UAP
> (given the time and energy it takes away from what most students do
> here -- study), it is now quite explicitly used at the discretion of
> the UAP for things either that make doing the job of UAP easier or
> that are used to benefit students on this campus.
>
> typical uses over the past few years included supporting student
> activities and events that needed emergency cash, purchasing office
> supplies for the UA office, and helping to sponsor charity events.
>
> this is just what parliamentarians call a "point of information" --
> whomever you vote for, vote your conscience -- ask about the issues,
> pose challenging questions, and think about who you want to speak for
> undergrads during the many changes that will happen on campus next
> year.
>
> --**peter
>
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> Peter A Shulman '01
> Ph.D. Student, History and Social
> Study of Science and Technology
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Cell: 617 461-4538
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