[2704] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Upcoming UA Issue - Student Group Property Ownership
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy H. Brown)
Thu Oct 19 00:02:28 2006
From: jhbrown@csail.mit.edu (Jeremy H. Brown)
To: Alexander J Werbos <awerbos@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:07:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: <87bqoatbl5.fsf@telluride.toybox.cambridge.ma.us> (Jeremy
H. Brown's message of "Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:52:22 -0400")
Cc: ua-senate@mit.edu, mit-talk@mit.edu, senior-house@mit.edu
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jhbrown@csail.mit.edu (Jeremy H. Brown) writes:
> Oh, space. The ASA has, for a long time, been "in charge" of most of
> the student office space and bulletin-board space, and has
> periodically reallocated it. In practice, in my era, at least, all
> they usually did was take office space away from defunct groups and
> give it to groups that wanted space, and other such more-or-less
> inoffensive changes. Even there there was often controversy, but
> whatever. Every group knows that their office space is nominally lent
> via the ASA; it's clear, and they should be under no illusion that
> they "own" it, because it's spelled out.
One final (you hope, anyhow) point: long-established groups like LSC,
the Tech, WMBR, etc. have office space which is generally considered
sacred when the ASA goes to reallocate offices. Most other groups are
still jostling for space. I know when I was a student, the years that
office space reallocation was coming up, the more politically-aware
groups would work hard to put a number of members into the ASA in
order to make sure their interests were thoroughly represented.
I've also heard of people trying to do Finboard stacking, but I never
knew enough about Finboard's procedures to know how well that worked.
Anyhow, coming around to my actual point: If the UA gets the power to
reposess resources that they deem under-utilized, eventually some
wacky student group is going to stack that committee/wing/whatever,
and go to town with it.
Actually, that could be kind of fun. I'd love to see what the Campus
Crusade for Cthulhu would do if they had control of the UA Committee
for Taking Other People's Stuff.
Jeremy
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