[1280] in UA Senate
Laptops (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rachel E Meyer)
Sun Apr 24 05:28:27 2011
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 05:28:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rachel E Meyer <remeyer@MIT.EDU>
To: ua-senate@mit.edu
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(moved to ua-senate for discussion purposes as requested)
Just a few points:
1. I agree (as I have previously) on the guests part.
2. This is not chair's decision to make and is a decision that Senate=20
has already made this session and before:
http://web.mit.edu/ua/senate/UAS42/passed/42%20UAS%204.4%20Laptop%20Policy.=
pdf
http://web.mit.edu/remeyer/Public/UA/History/UAS39/passedlegislation/pdf/39=
-4-8.pdf
3. To reiterate a couple points from both of those bills:
- laptops can help people be productive
- people can be not productive in many other ways
4. I'm not arguing your points about Senate's engagement, but this is not=
=20
the solution and I also don't think it's even an effective quick fix.
-Rachel
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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:16:13 -0400
From: "Jont=C3=A9 Craighead (UA Speaker)" <ua-speaker@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ua-senate-officers@MIT.EDU
To: ua-senate-members@mit.edu
Subject: Laptops
Hi, guys:
This is meant to be a notice for Monday's meeting.
tl;dr: No laptops during the guest speaker and no laptops after 11:00pm.
The MIT-Online Faculty Study Group has asked that the entire session at Mon=
day's meeting take place off
the record. Because of this, and the fact that this group will be our guest=
, laptops must not be open.
Furthermore, I am going to request that laptops also be closed during any b=
usiness that takes place
after 11:00pm. If you have noticed anything this year, it's that, usually, =
fewer than half of you are
paying attention to the discussion at once past about this time. If the dis=
cussion on the floor is not
interesting or useful, you should do something about it (i.e. move to close=
discussion, postpone,
etc.). This is your Senate, you should own it. Otherwise, we run into situa=
tions where a small number
of participants are the only ones driving the discussions (and effectively =
acting as the only student
representatives).
Instituting this rule is not fun, but I feel it's necessary to keep people =
engaged, or at the very
least, ensure that our last three meetings aren't also our longest.
I would be happy to answer any questions here, but if you have comments or =
want to start a discussion,
please move this e-mail to ua-senate@.
Thanks,
Jont=C3=A9 Craighead
Speaker of the Senate
MIT Undergraduate Association
Course 1C: Class of 2013
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