[2031] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] [UA-SCATR] New Card initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Faber)
Fri Jul 7 13:00:33 2006
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:54:57 -0400
From: "Jacob Faber" <faber@alum.mit.edu>
To: Peach <thepeach@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.62L.0607071248290.12114@no-knife.mit.edu>
Cc: mit-talk@mit.edu, grace <gkenney@mit.edu>,
Dheera Venkatraman <dheera@mit.edu>
Reply-To: faber@alum.mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
I wonder if there are any admins on mit-talk any more...there used to be...
It would be nice to hear some defense from someone who has an idea of
the reasoning behind this project, and for someone "up there" to hear
this feedback.
Anyone?
On 7/7/06, Peach <thepeach@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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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