[2637] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Upcoming UA Issue - Student Group Property Ownership
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (You (Yoyo) Zhou)
Tue Oct 17 11:54:15 2006
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:53:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "You (Yoyo) Zhou" <yoz@mit.edu>
To: Alexander J Werbos <awerbos@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62L.0610171115420.23408@dodecahedron.mit.edu>
Cc: Jacob Faber <jacob.faber@gmail.com>, mit-talk@mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, these errant words escaped from Alexander J Werbos:
> 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).
It also ensures that groups will be dealing with each other adversarially
rather than cooperatively, where property is concerned.
I can hardly think of a single resource that *couldn't* be used more
efficiently, merely because student groups are composed of students who
can't spend all of their time making use of their resources.
--
Yoyo Zhou
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