[2655] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Upcoming UA Issue - Student Group Property Ownership
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Glasser)
Tue Oct 17 13:06:18 2006
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:05:32 -0700
From: "David Glasser" <glasser@mit.edu>
To: "Alexander J Werbos" <awerbos@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62L.0610171243030.24754@dodecahedron.mit.edu>
Cc: Adam Seering <aseering@mit.edu>, mit-talk@mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
On 10/17/06, Alexander J Werbos <awerbos@mit.edu> wrote:
> The UA still has pretty much absolute power over the groups we control.
> With the proper vote, we can do some pretty vicious things.
Can you please get off your UA high horse and remember that actually,
student group existence and funding comes from the ASA, not the UA?
This might seem trivial, but you're entirely excluding the graduate
student community. I certainly wouldn't think that the UA Senate
alone would have the power to do anything it's proposing now.
The debate about whether the *ASA* should have a role in sharing group
property is reasonable, but that's a broader community, not just the
whims of the honorable Senator from Senior Haus.
(The Logs issue has always been a fiasco, of course -- the a cappella
groups agreed to give up their offices to construct a *joint* studio,
and then the Logs went behind their back and built it (admittedly,
with a lot of time and money invested) themselves and became feudal
lords.)
--dave
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David Glasser | glasser@mit.edu | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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