[526] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: fun protests **at MIT**
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (asarahm)
Thu May 3 19:34:16 2001
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To: Wally <wally@sub-zero.MIT.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 May 2001 19:21:44 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 19:30:47 -0400
From: asarahm <asarahm@MIT.EDU>
i mean that the rssc report had things like a freshman dorm, an IAP
FSILG rush and various other monstrosities that were chosen because
they were "thinking out of the box" - their first draft had the frosh
dorm as ashdown which angered a great many folks.
the unified response to the rssc report was much more realistic, and
took considerations from a very large portion of the student body,
including grad students, undergrads, dorm folks, frat. folks, sorority
folks, co-op folks, off-campus folks, professors, and alums. it took
elements from the rssc proposal, and from the various designs that
teams put forward during the IAP contest. and a lot of it went
directly into chancellor bacow's final report, which is what the
implementation team is basing everything off of.
we can argue whether or not it was a "protest".. in my thesis-addled
mind i forgot to mention in my last email that i don't really consider
the two paper responses to be "protests" of a traditional kind, but
instead are indicative of students working together to combat an
administrative decision that at first they had no control over.
for more info on this, look at :
http://web.mit.edu/residence/systemdesign/phase2.html
(the RSSC's final report)
http://web.mit.edu/advise/www/unifiedproposal/proposal-FINAL.html
(the unified student proposal)
http://web.mit.edu/residence/systemdesign/bacow1.html
(chancellor's final report)
i probably have pointers to the chorover proposal from fall of 97 and
the ilg-talk response to it, but i'm late, so you should email me
off-line if you're curious...
take care all,
-asm
