[365] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: ATO Incident
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Jones)
Mon Apr 30 22:50:44 2001
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:48:19 -0500
To: Patrick D Kane <pkane@MIT.EDU>, "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
From: Christopher Jones <wrjjones@MIT.EDU>
Cc: mit-talk@MIT.EDU, ifc-talk@MIT.EDU
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At 06:40 PM 4/30/01 -0400, Patrick D Kane wrote:
>ATO seems to be dealing with the situation appropriately, so for all
intensive
>purposes, I hope the MIT administration allows them to handle it as they see
>fit. In fact, it would probably be beneficial for MIT to keep it's distance;
>blowing it out of proportion might just propagate the idea that this type of
>racism is a widespread Institute problem.
>
>-pk
>
MIT is going to be involved because underage drinking was present at the
same time (note wording, alcohol was present, that does not mean it was
involved in the scuffle with the band). As a result the CLC will be
reviewing the house, and MIT will have to respond. Hopefully they will keep
the two issues separate.
That said, some would argue that racism is a widespread problem. Not that
MIT is worse than the rest of the nation, but on par with the nation is not
where we want to be. I think the administration would be remiss in not
taking a look at the issue of race at MIT. As for the indevidual brothers,
even if ATO's responce is appropiate, it may not be enough. Their power is
limited, and, depending on the exact detaials, MIT may want to take further
action.
Also, at this point only one student has been identified as having made
inapropriate coments. The other student was involved in the scuffle.
-chris
