[1920] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M Kelch)
Mon Jul 3 12:08:58 2006
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:05:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steven M Kelch <kelch@mit.edu>
To: David Glasser <glasser@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1ea387f60607030835o3e3ccddcl70de03a6e88409c1@mail.gmail.com>
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"To the best of my knowledge" yes. This is what I was told when I first
heard of the idea (which was a few months ago, after which I thought the
idea had been discarded). But things may have changed.
I am going to push Rich Berlin for a press release of some sort (which
they may already have prepared). Hopefully we can find out more in the
next few days.
--skelch
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, David Glasser wrote:
> On 7/2/06, Steven M Kelch <kelch@mit.edu> wrote:
>> It's come through the grapevine that there will be an addition to the
>> MIT
>> ID card. In addition to Tech Cash, there will be a new account created
>> that will be "food only".
>
> To the best of your knowledge, will "Dining Dollars" be similar to
> TechCash in that money can be put onto it at any time, and the money
> does not go away at the end of the term?
>
> (I'm personally opposed to anything that constrains students into
> buying food from Campus Dining only, for the reasons that everyone
> else has brought up, but also for the fact that my house's strongest
> rush tool is our meal plan, and anything that discourages students
> from eating off campus directly hurts our social connection to
> campus.)
>
> --dave
>
>
> --
> David Glasser | glasser@mit.edu | http://www.davidglasser.net/
>
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