[1054] in UA Senate
RE: Agenda for 42 UAS 9
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Almas Abdulla)
Mon Feb 7 15:39:31 2011
From: Almas Abdulla <almas_a@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Jenks <tjenks@mit.edu>, Daniel D Hawkins <hwkns@mit.edu>
CC: ua-senate-officers <ua-senate-officers@mit.edu>,
ua-senate
<ua-senate@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:38:20 -0500
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikLkggWqWFYN5s1ggXVkRq46_7C67Rdz782ATd4@mail.gmail.com>
Can non-senate members raise concerns regarding REX in today's meeting? Som=
e of my constituents are interested in attending.
Almas=20
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From: trjenks@gmail.com [trjenks@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tim Jenks [tjenks@=
MIT.EDU]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 10:26 AM
To: Daniel D Hawkins
Cc: ua-senate-officers; ua-senate
Subject: Re: Agenda for 42 UAS 9
That depends on how busy their FPOP and the math diagnostic keeps them duri=
ng these days. They'd have at least Sunday and Monday, and parts (possibly=
only the night) or all of Saturday.
--Tim
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Daniel Hawkins <hwkns@mit.edu<mailto:hwkns=
@mit.edu>> wrote:
What about FPOP kids? How much REX time do they get in this scenario?
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Tim Jenks <tjenks@mit.edu<mailto:tjenks@mi=
t.edu>> wrote:
Hi guys, has any progress been made on discussion for orientation? After m=
ulling it over for a while, it seems to me that the big issue is the squeez=
e in time between the earliest point that students are allowed to arrive on=
campus if they're not participating in an FPOP or a sport, and the time at=
which the housing lottery closes. I think a reasonable compromise would b=
e for the admistration/housing office to keep the arrival date for all fres=
hman the same (was it Friday last year?). If students think they'll need t=
he usual 3ish days to figure out where they want to live, then they will st=
ill have the opportunity to arrive earlier than Sunday to walk around, get =
to know the dorms, etc. If a frosh is comfortable with where they're going =
to live, they can arrive whenever they want during the weekend, either to e=
xplore MIT/Cambridge/Boston if they get here early, or arrive at the last p=
ossible moment before the check-in table closes.
This wouldn't put any additional strain on the housing office/staff that pr=
epares the dorms, since it wouldn't be a departure from the current system.=
If this ends up being the case though, we need to make sure a clear messa=
ge is sent to the incoming class that they can arrive whenever they want du=
ring the weekend depending on what they want to do, and avoid giving them t=
he impression that they shouldn't arrive until convocation.
If you don't move the move-in date but start official orientation events la=
ter, you're just shifting the responsibility of participating in REX to the=
incoming freshmen class. If they want it, it is there for them. Its not =
forced upon them, and the opportunity is not taken away from them at all. =
To me, this embodies the choose-for-yourself-because-we're-all-grown-up men=
tality that we strive to keep at MIT.
--Tim
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Jont=E9 Craighead (UA Speaker) <ua-speaker@=
mit.edu<mailto:ua-speaker@mit.edu>> wrote:
Hi, everyone:
Please find linked below the agenda for 42 UAS 9, our first Senate meeting =
of the Spring semester. There is no guest speaker, but we have plenty of bu=
siness to address at Monday's meeting.
http://web.mit.edu/ua/senate/UAS42/agendas/2011-02-07.pdf
Elections & confirmation procedures for officers and committee chairs are f=
irst along with the State of the UA address. Responding to requests from Se=
nators over IAP and on the self-evaluation, I will begin requesting that a =
few committee chairs give short reports on their committee's progress at ea=
ch meeting. This, along with regular Senator participation on committees, s=
hould help keep Senate in the loop on the work of the committees and enable=
us to operate in an oversight capacity.
The brief discussion on orientation is an opportunity for us to address ori=
entation in an open way before reviewing legislation and making further dec=
isions about the issue. We can skip this agenda item on Monday if it is no =
longer necessary.
I have not received the legislation for orientation or FinBoard policy yet;=
I will link them once they have been submitted. Any agenda items that have=
not been submitted by tomorrow (Sunday) at 7:30pm will be removed in the i=
nterest of transparency.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Jont=E9 Craighead
Speaker of the Senate
MIT Undergraduate Association
Course 1C: Class of 2013
