[2028] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] [UA-SCATR] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dheera Venkatraman)
Fri Jul 7 12:21:57 2006
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:21:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dheera Venkatraman <dheera@mit.edu>
To: Jessica H Lowell <jessiehl@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060707114917.1xfglp6y06ck0ocs@webmail.mit.edu>
Cc: mit-talk@mit.edu, grace <gkenney@mit.edu>
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
parental consent? is there anything at all at mit that requires parental
consent besides the application?
-dheera
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dheera venkatraman
http://dheera.net/
dheera@dheera.net
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Jessica H Lowell wrote:
> 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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