[2018] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] [UA-SCATR] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jessica H Lowell)
Fri Jul 7 11:49:57 2006
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:49:17 -0400
From: Jessica H Lowell <jessiehl@mit.edu>
To: grace <gkenney@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62L.0607071137120.9920@department-of-alchemy.mit.edu>
Cc: mit-talk@mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
Oh. I stand corrected. Ick. That's ridiculous. Though according to the
version of the plan I heard originally, students can move Dining Dollars into
their normal TechCash accounts without parental consent, which would make it
much less of a problem. Anyone know if that's still the case?
- Jessie
Quoting grace <gkenney@MIT.EDU>:
>
> it was specifically mentioned that verde's [along with the coop,
> which has a little bit of snack food] would be excluded, since
> they're not food-only. [and they'd have to do a lot more work to
> allow food items and exclude non-food items - as far as i can tell,
> only the final total amount gets sent from verde's to the card office
> people.]
>
> -grace
>
>
> gibbering like hunter thompson on a revolutionary drug,
> jessiehl@MIT.EDU said:
>
>> Not to imply that I favor the Dining Dollars - I already stated my
>> position on
>> that - but as far as I know there's nothing stopping a kid from
>> using them to
>> buy groceries at LaVerde's. As far as purchase of food goes, it's no more
>> restrictive than normal TechCash.
>>
>> - Jessie
>>
>> Quoting David Glasser <glasser@MIT.EDU>:
>>
>>> On 7/6/06, Jeff Roberts <thejoker@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Having heard the same arguments over and over again, I've come to
>>>> think that the persistent problem plaguing campus dining is that when
>>>> it comes to food, everyone has different preferences and no one system
>>>> is going to satisfy everyone
>>>
>>> Yes. And this is why it is a problem if MIT is advertising a program
>>> that lets parents decide in August that their child will have to eat
>>> at one very specific type of facility. (Do not forget that this
>>> program looks to parents exactly like the meal plan that all of their
>>> child's friends are getting at their schools, so it would be
>>> surprising if the majority of parents do not use this program.)
>>>
>>> --dave
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>
>>
>
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