[904] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Discuss Mandatory Dining at the UA Town Hall Meeting Tonight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John W. Belcher)
Thu Oct 4 17:49:41 2001
Message-ID: <200110042053.QAA05755@oersted.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:53:57 -0400
Reply-To: "Documentation at http://web.mit.edu/beland/talk/talk.html"
<MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU>, "John W. Belcher" <jwb@SPACE.MIT.EDU>
From: "John W. Belcher" <jwb@SPACE.MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
if all of the below is true, how is it that I am running an educational project on some of
the $10 million donated to the institute by the Chair of the Corporation, Alex d'Arbeloff,
for the improvement of education at the institute.
come on, d'Arbeloff was an undergraduate here. Do you really think he gave $10 million dollars out
of his own money but yet doesn't care about students at MIT?
John Belcher
> I would suggest a much more likely case is simply that the administration could care
> less what the student body thinks, because we cant really do anything to them, and they
> are not accountable to us in any way, at least now.
...
> Its not about actually doing something positive, but making people think you have.
> Kinda like the freshman on housing, the mandatory meal plan, whatever. Its about
> external image, prestige, and being able to say you carea bout students. They actually
> dont (imagine that!)
>
