[2658] 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 13:21:52 2006
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:21:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander J Werbos <awerbos@mit.edu>
To: David Glasser <glasser@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1ea387f60610171005k1bd2a385v9941f68980e410fd@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Seering <aseering@mit.edu>, mit-talk@mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, David Glasser wrote:
> 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.
High horse, I expect, is a manner of perspective. My intent was to express
the fact that the UA isn't going around abusing its power.
You are dead wrong about Funding and the graduate community. The ASA
doesn't fund anyone. That is done separately by the UA and GSC funding
boards. I was never talking about the UA exerting influence over graduate
groups, only those that get money from UA Finboard.
> 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.
I'd be willing to move it to be a broader ASA issue, but that would take
substantially more time. I saw this as being a strictly UA process dealing
with UA-funded groups.
I resent the allegation that this is some sort of power-hungry whim. I am
trying to create a process by which student groups can best utilize the
resources available. I asked for feedback, and I have expressed my views.
All of this is preliminary, and I'd like to point out that I took the
initiative in contacting the community for their thoughts before any
formal discussion commenced.
-Alex
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