[1907] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Sniffen)
Sun Jul 2 16:44:27 2006
From: Brian Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>
To: Matthew Steele <mdsteele@mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:44:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: <8FE24C63-68B3-41F5-9D8C-0275233EACE6@mit.edu> (Matthew Steele's
message of "Sun, 2 Jul 2006 13:25:03 -0700")
Cc: ua-scatr@mit.edu, mit-talk@mit.edu
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Matthew Steele <mdsteele@mit.edu> writes:
> If it is a proper subset, then is there _any_ benefit to the
> alternate account other than giving parents more control over
> spending? If there is no other benefit to the new system, then no, I
> would have no reason to use it, and I don't see why anyone else would
> except for parents who can't trust their kid not to buy tabloids.
Sure: there's a benefit to campus dining. This is an alternative to
a meal plan, a sop to the dining providers to shut them up without
imposing a meal plan. Sounds good to me.
It's unfortunate that MIT continues to err in admitting students such
that the surface explanation is a problem.
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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