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letter at the bottom (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Payal Parekh)
Sun Apr 23 20:05:33 2000
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:05:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Payal Parekh <parekh@pimms.mit.edu>
To: peace-list@MIT.EDU
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>Subject: PROTEST on MONDAY at MIT. Please help out!
>
>On Monday, April 24th, the grass circle known as McDermott Court "Dot",
>located
>between the Green Building and Building 18, will be uprooted so that MIT can
>build 3 year "temporary" faculty offices. This decision was made by the
>administration without any student input. Currently, this small piece of
grass
>is the only place on the east side of campus where students can play frisbee,
>lie in the grass, or eat lunch in the sunshine. Without this small plot of
>grass, the east side of campus, which is already rather grey and depressing,
>will basically be one large expanse of concrete. Being that student morale on
>campus is already at an all-time low and MIT students are really starting to
>feel that the administration is becoming actively anti-student, this decision
>only makes student life worse.
>
>Harvard would never put up temporary faculty offices in the middle of Harvard
>Yard. I cannot think of another college besides MIT which would have the
nerve
>to do this. This is yet another decision by the administration which should
>make you angry, so angry that you will join us in protesting it. At 8 am on
>Monday, April 24th, we will meet in front of the Green Building and begin the
>protest. Please take a small amount of time out of your day to show up
anytime
>during Monday morning or early afternoon--the earlier, the better. We will
>have
>signs, costumes, and many students on hand. If you would like to help make
>signs or be involved with this project at a deeper level, please send me
email
>at gdayal@mit.edu.
>
>It is my belief that it would serve the MIT community better to hold onto one
>of the few organic spaces we have. Their idea of "communicating" this
decision
>to the student body, as you will read in the email below, is to write an
>article about the construction in "Tech Talk" on Thursday after the soil has
>already been removed. This is absolutely infuriating. MIT must realize that
>they are running a university, not a corporation.
>
>To sum up: This Monday. In the morning. At the McDermott Dot. Be there. For
>further details, please don't hesitate to email me.
>
>Sincerely,
>Geeta Dayal '01
>
>P.S. Please read the email that follows this, from Ruth Davis, Communications
>Manager at the Department of Facilities. This email was not made public to
the
>MIT community at large.
>
>>At 11:29 AM -0400 4/21/00, Ruth Davis wrote:
>>>As you all know, our campus is beginning an unprecedented building boom.
>>>The Department of Facilities would like to open communication about this
>>>construction to as wide a group on campus as possible. Therefore, we would
>>>appreciate your help in informing your department of our news updates.
>>>
>>>Last week, we began a feature in Tech Talk that we hope will appear on a
>>>regular basis: Campus Construction Update. (See the box at the bottom of
>>>the back page of the 4/12 edition). In addition to this box, we will have
>>>news stories about the various construction in Tech Talk. Next week, an
>>>article about the renovation to Building 18 should appear.
>>>
>>>Also, we will soon feature a website off of our home page with details
>>>concerning pedestrian safety, traffic updates as well as other aspects of
>>>the campus construction.
>>>
>>>On this coming Monday, April 24th, the circle in McDermott Court (located
>>>between buildings 18 and 54) will have its soil removed in preparation for
>>>the Temporary Faculty Offices that will be placed there in early May.
>>>These "TFOs" will remain there for the three-year period that the building
>>>will be under construction. Details on this and other aspects of this
>>>building's construction will be related in the article in next week's Tech
>>>Talk.
>>>
>>>The senior project manager in the Department of Facilities for the Building
>>>18 renovation is Hans Antonsson, ext. 3-6822 or <Anton@PLANT.MIT.EDU>. You
>>>may direct any questions you have to Hans or me.
>>>
>>>We appreciate your cooperation during these times of change on our campus.
>>>We are sure that when the construction is finished in the years ahead, our
>>>campus will be both stunning and worthy of MIT's world-class reputation.
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>Ruth
>>>
>>>Ruth T. Davis
>>>Communications Manager
>>>Department of Facilities
>>>
>>>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>>NE20-277
>>>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>>>Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
>>>
>>>phone 617-253-7299
>>>fax 617-253-3737
>>>pager 781-532-4286 (Digital)
>>>e-mail rtdavis@mit.edu
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