[1289] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
The beaver paws - reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Champy)
Fri Apr 12 11:35:40 2002
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:47:43 -0400
From: Adam Champy <aschampy@MIT.EDU>
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Ok - I would just like to respond to a few points:
why I wrote the email:
650 Dollars is a good chunk of change. If that type of money is not going
to be spent on the ring premiere, I don't think the tradeoff for the class
is worth the 5 photos of amal humping the statue. I am not just talking
about the money being spent on me, I am talking about the class. This is
one of the 3 or 4 times the class has the opportunity to really unite when
at mit, and seeing that all of the 2004 funds have pretty much been spent
on KFC before this spring (when things started to get better
activity-wise,) spending 650 dollars to replace paws instead of on making
the ring premiere even better is actually pretty important.
why I don't think the risk was worth it:
Not all risks are worth it. Just because somebody has the guts to do
something, if that thing is stupid, then he just had the guts to do
something stupid. I am not proud that Tim the beaver humped John Harvard.
It isn't cleaver, it was witnessed by drunk harvard students late at night,
and I don't put it in the category of being a good hack. Sometimes, we
validate things just because someone had the guts to do it. Just because
somebody is bold doesn't mean they were thoughtful in planning what they
did, making it more than just a time to take their own pictures of humping
john harvard in front of drunken revelers. If the Beaver goes over to
harvard, shows up at some freshman bio lecture and starts freaking the
professor, well - that took more planning and might be even funnier than
humping a statue. One thing about hacks, though, that people seem to
forget, is that there is careful planning along with some amount of
responsibility so nothing goes wrong. People who do hacks make sure that
they consider what negative effects the hack might have and then do
something cleaver. Just because the harvard-humpers were bold doesn't mean
they were cleaver. So, when they failed at doing their tasks, I just don't
like the fact that 650 dollars could come out of the ring committee funds.
It is one of the only events where the class comes together and it should
be as good as possible. If someone were to say, I am going to take 650
dollars from the funding for commencement to pay for a failed "hack," I
doubt that people would just sit around and say ok - the kid was bold and
failed, we owe him some cash if he needs it.
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