[200] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Recent Discussions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Ito)
Wed Apr 25 04:21:04 2001
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 04:20:44 -0400
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From: Brad Ito <bito@MIT.EDU>
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Well, so last week I looked at my MIT-talk folder, cringed; looked at how
many megabytes were written in the span of a few days; cringed again and
had to do some other things.
Then tonight I happened to see Emily Rooney interview some folks from
Harvard about the whole living wage issue on Greater Boston (WGBH) (Though
Rooney seemed somehow too concerned about how finals would be
handled.) And I thought, cool. I musta seen at least a few hundred
messages on mit-talk about the living wage issue (or so I thought). So I
decide to go and read them.
... a few hours pass ....
Well the discussions on social policy were all good and interesting,
reminds of when I subscribed to spa-discuss for a little while. But
there's too much flaming and lack of structured debate for any real
conclusions to be made. And that wasn't what I was reading for.
Well the discussions on theism/agnosticism/atheism were all good and
interesting, reminds of when I participated on mitaah-discuss for a little
while. But there's too much flaming and lack of structured debate for any
real conclusions to be made. And that wasn't what I was reading for.
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What I was reading for was more discussion relating to activism at MIT. I
mean, here's this perfectly good example of students getting their views
aired only just up the river. Maybe something could possibly be learned
from it. I know MIT is not Harvard. But does that have to be a reason
why, for example, the sit-ins to protest FoC made hardly any real
difference at all?
Activism at MIT seems to be made up of policy writers, email-list flamers,
some outside activist groups, and not enough people. There have been some
successes, I suppose things could be far worse. Then again, we've not had
a mass media-covered, discussion-provoking event that I've heard of. And
that's kinda sad.
-Brad Ito
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