[446] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Gender and Race
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zhelinrentice L Scott)
Tue May 1 23:55:44 2001
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Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 23:54:56 -0400
From: Zhelinrentice L Scott <zlscott@MIT.EDU>
Dear MIT,
It was my hope that we could talk about proactive steps to help
build community. I hoped that by telling a personal story about
myself that would get people thinking. Instead I get blasted
for caring.
I am SO tired of insults innuendo and I would like to propose some programs
to make MIT a more educated diversity.
Prof. Clarence Williams teaches, "Bridging Cultural and Racial Differences"
and I think it would be nice to turn that class into a HASS-D
that is required by ALL to take it. This doesn't harm anyone and gives
the institute the ability to say in a big way that they are committed
to producing leaders who are not racist and are able to deal with
people who are different than them.
Another thing I would like to see (again another idea that I have
talked about with others) is a lounge space that purely dedicated
to socializing for all people. I think someone suggested
that the theme of this lounge would be sports. I realize that we
do have the muddy and the thirsty ear but this lounge would be
non-alcoholic and could possibly go where Tosci's is in the student
center if Tosci's ever gets kicked out.
So, I tossed out 2 ideas. What do people thinK? Would a HASS-D
dedicated to bridging cultural gaps and a sports "bar" be effective?
How about "tooling nights" Where once a month/week students are
invited to Walker Memorial for food and study. This could foster
some good conversation, community, etc. etc.
Zhe
who did not **realize** that being involved and caring about
the history of women at MIT was being on Planet SCOTT
