[318] in UA Exec
Re: You are being lied to.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexandra Jordan)
Tue Apr 6 16:48:07 2010
Cc: Quentin Smith <quentin@mit.edu>, Keri Garel <thekeri@mit.edu>,
Jessica H Lowell <jessiehl@mit.edu>,
Martin F Holmes <goholmes@mit.edu>, "Liz A. Denys" <lizdenys@mit.edu>,
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From: Alexandra Jordan <amjordan@MIT.EDU>
To: Vinayak Ranade <vinayak@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4BBB9D5C.3020209@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:48:00 -0400
The bit about there endowment is not true. Paul Baranay did some
digging and found that the endowment doesn't exactly cover dining
deficits (which would be convenient for them). For more info, ask Adam
or try emailing Paul.
Alex
On Apr 6, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Vinayak Ranade wrote:
> As I understand it, the McCormick dining hall is protected by a
> separate endowment. Thus the deficit from the McCormick dining hall
> gets covered by restricted funds (as opposed to the rest of dining
> that gets covered by general MIT funds). I can also find no
> verification that the McCormick house government doesn't want their
> dining program. It would be nice if someone living in McCormick
> could validate/deny these claims.
>
> Vinayak
>
> Quentin Smith wrote:
>> Isn't McCormick the dorm where the housemaster insists on having a
>> house dining program, ignoring the please of the house government?
>> That doesn't seem like an advocate for student choice in dining...
>>
>> --Quentin
>
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Alexandra Jordan
MIT 2011
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science
Political Science
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