[1951] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Separating threads: Student Committee on
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Faber)
Mon Jul 3 16:57:06 2006
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:56:43 -0400
From: "Jacob Faber" <faber@alum.mit.edu>
To: Robotica <androidqueen@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9bde964c0607031334x1bd2ca19r210b0a7e00fe5177@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "Pius A. Uzamere II" <pius@alum.mit.edu>, grace <gkenney@mit.edu>,
Dheera Venkatraman <dheera@mit.edu>, ua-scatr@mit.edu,
mit-talk@mit.edu
Reply-To: faber@alum.mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
Point well taken. I apologize for my tone and if I offended anyone.
I did not mean to say that anyone who disagrees with me is irrelevant.
I do feel, though, that to be an effective member of any committee,
one must be aware of the issues the committee is charged with
addressing.
On 7/3/06, Robotica <androidqueen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For example, I was on
> > the Committee on Campus Race Relations with a student member who
> > refused to admit racism still existed. Why was he/she on this
> > committee? To this day I have no idea.
>
> perhaps because a committee on campus race relations might benefit
> from knowing how students actually perceive the current situation of
> racism? just because it's not your opinion doesn't mean that it's not
> relevant.
>
> -m
>
> --
> ninjaneer. geomancer. licensed scientician.
>
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Jacob W. Faber
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