[2030] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] [UA-SCATR] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peach)
Fri Jul 7 12:50:05 2006
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:49:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peach <thepeach@mit.edu>
To: Dheera Venkatraman <dheera@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62L.0607071220500.7155@rle-12-113.mit.edu>
Cc: mit-talk@mit.edu, grace <gkenney@mit.edu>
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
the application requires parental consent?
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Dheera Venkatraman wrote:
> parental consent? is there anything at all at mit that requires parental
> consent besides the application?
>
> -dheera
>
> --------------------------------
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> David Glasser | glasser@mit.edu | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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