[2634] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Upcoming UA Issue - Student Group Property Ownership
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Muchnij)
Tue Oct 17 11:36:43 2006
To: Alexander J Werbos <awerbos@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:20:29 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:35:19 -0400
From: Jay Muchnij <munch@mit.edu>
Cc: mit-talk@mit.edu
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So, basically you like the Kelo decision enough to bring it to MIT?
Wonderful.
As I understand it, capital expenditures financed by Finboard already
come with the strings that the acquisitions technically belong to the
UA; or has that changed since my crufty self was an undergrad? I don't
conside this wonderful, but it's not unreasonable.
Declaring that the UA can seize stuff that any student group has,
regardless of how they acquired it, seems like quite the power grab, and
not at all reasonable. Protestations of "we can only take your stuff if
someone else asks us for it" don't go very far....
Of course, if you push this through, there could be a very exciting turf
war with the GSC... that might be fun to watch.
j
> Just a brief word about how I envision all this happening:
>
> I see the creation of a process whereby one or several student groups can
> petition the UA for the reallocation of materiel being used by another
> student group. They would have a joint meeting with one or more UA
> Facilitators, and make their case. The Facilitators would then propose a
> course of action to the Senate, which would include the possibility or
> reallocating the materiel in question.
>
> This ensures:
>
> 1) The resource might actually be used more efficiently, and this is
> causing people concern. Since a student group must take the initiative to make its
> case to the UA, somebody has to really think they're being mistreated.
>
> 2) That the UA doesn't go nosing where it doesn't belong. Requiring a
> student group to initiate the process means that someone has to need
> something. It won't just be the UA messing with groups that anger it
> (which I don't think would happen anyway, but some people seem to be
> concerned about that).
>
> -Alex
>
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