[951] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: KDK: No Mandatory Meal Plan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Ito)
Fri Oct 19 03:17:37 2001
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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 03:14:56 -0400
From: Brad Ito <bito@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
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Unfortunately what Mike said was slightly inaccurate. While Clay is
looking to the Board to come up with a viable plan and is optimistic that
we will, and while Kirk, the chair of the Board, has been agreeable to the
idea of no mandatory plan; in my memory there have been no promises made =(.
What is promising is that part of the proposed vision plan, which is to be
decided upon at the next meeting, explicitly outlines that any dining plan
must be voluntary. Things are looking good, but we need to be wary of what
actually is being promised.
-Brad Ito
UA Dining Committee Chair
UA representative to the Campus Dining Board
At 12:55 AM 10/19/2001 -0400, Chris Rezek wrote:
>Good news. See 2nd paragraph.
>
>Mike or other member of Campus Dining Board - please confirm good news.
>
>Chris
>
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>Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 00:46:02 -0400
>To: ifc-talk@mit.edu, fsilg-presidents@mit.edu
>From: Michael Mulvania <mulvania@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Campus Dining Board
>
>I'm the IFC representative to the Campus Dining Board. The Campus Dining
>Board was created to resolve problems created by the Institute's mandatory
>dining proposal. My job is to promote the interests of IFC member houses
>within any new dining proposal.
>
>First, to our great relief, Kirk Kolenbrander (Special Assistant to the
>President and Chancellor) has repeatedly stated that there will be no
>mandatory meal plan after his discussions with Phillip Clay. In his words,
>"You get what you pay for, you pay for what you get." However, MIT is set
>on reforming the dining system. MIT wants to reform the dining system in
>such a way as to "create community." Nobody on the Dining Board is
>entirely sure what that means. Despite all this, some good ideas have
>already been discussed (e.g.: competition in dining contracts; ID cards to
>be used at LaVerde's).
>
>At this point, I haven't seen any proposed major overhauls that would
>negatively affect IFC members, or more importantly, member houses' ability
>to get freshmen over to their houses for meals. From what I heard at the
>last President's Council, those are your primary FSILG-related concerns. Of
>course, it is still early in the process and new issues can definitely
>arise. I'll keep you informed.
>
>The Campus Dining Board website,
>http://web.mit.edu/dining/feedback/cdboard.html, provides some information
>about the dining board, a feedback form, and postings of minutes from the
>meetings. The minutes especially are helpful in knowing the progress of the
>Dining Board.
>
>Finally, I strongly encourage you to give me feedback, whether that's
>questions or suggested proposals. I can only adequately represent the IFC's
>views if I know what those views are. The Dining Board's proposal will be
>completed and submitted before Thanksgiving, so time is short.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike Mulvania
>IFC representative to the Campus Dining Board
>
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