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Re: An Offer and a Clarification

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stanislav Funiak)
Thu Mar 14 12:57:57 2002

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Date:         Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:38:25 -0500
From:         Stanislav Funiak <stanf@MIT.EDU>
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> Um, lemme think. Ok, got it: work on getting my vote for Rhett counted.

Yup, precisely.  And can the UA, please, also work on not taking credit for
everything that is happening on the campus?  In his recent email, Peter Schulman
stated that UA accomplished, among other things, the following

>>6) Lobbied (successfully) to avoid implementing a campus-wide, mandatory
>>dining plan;
>>...
>>8) Ran "I3" CD-ROM project to showcase student residences to incoming
>>freshmen over the summer, better facilitating residence selection;
>>...
>>15) Fought (successfully) to redefine role of (what are now) RLA's working
>>in student dorms;

These accomplishments were the result of hard work of various people, many of whom
have nothing to do with the UA (for example, take Vikash and his petition against
the mandatory meal plan, the numerous people who met with the administrators to
discuss the RLAs, people contributing to the I3 CD-ROM etc.)  Granted, the UA may
be _organizing_ certain activities (like the I3 CD-ROM); however, claims that UA
has accomplished all this are unjust and misleading.

Stano


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