[2638] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Upcoming UA Issue - Student Group Property Ownership
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander J Werbos)
Tue Oct 17 12:00:01 2006
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:59:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander J Werbos <awerbos@mit.edu>
To: "You (Yoyo) Zhou" <yoz@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62L.0610171140480.831@punenpgre.zvg.rqh>
Cc: Jacob Faber <jacob.faber@gmail.com>, mit-talk@mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, You (Yoyo) Zhou wrote:
> It also ensures that groups will be dealing with each other adversarially
> rather than cooperatively, where property is concerned.
This should only be happening after good-faith, cooperative efforts fail.
Yes, sometimes people become adversarial. We're trying to provide a way to
arbitrate that.
> 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.
Yes, but people are hardly going to be willing to go for the idea of a
communal stapler.
But, to combat that, I would add another criterion:
4) Reallocation more practical, given current funding, than duplication of
the resource.
-Alex
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