[2072] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Separating threads: Student Committee on
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Jul 10 16:21:20 2006
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:20:53 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: mit-talk@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20060710160817.04c02078@po10.mit.edu>
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Chris Rezek <crezek@alum.mit.edu> wrote on Mon, 10 Jul 2006
at 16:10:37 -0400 in <6.2.3.4.2.20060710160817.04c02078@po10.mit.edu>:
> Cc: faber@alum.mit.edu, mit-talk@mit.edu, grace <gkenney@mit.edu>,
> Dheera Venkatraman <dheera@mit.edu>, ua-scatr@mit.edu,
> "Pius A. Uzamere II" <pius@alum.mit.edu>
BTW, do we really want ua-scatr on the cc list for all of this?
> For example, I would rather the nominations committee spend its time
> interviewing students, rather than splashing posters all over
> campus. The former must be done by students. The second can be done
> by paid labor. Another NomComm example - processing and organizing
> applications can be done by staff, while designing the application
> should be done by students.
An example near and dear to my heart is minutes. The ASA and the UA
(for instance) still do a terrible job of publishing the minutes of
their meetings, despite repeated queries, even articles in The Tech
declaring their lameness (cf. my article,
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N19/19briefs-ua.html).
I really think that many parts of student government could benefit
by having dedicated staff to deal with minutes.
It does appear that the ASA updated their minutes page
(http://web.mit.edu/asa/www/minutes.shtml) on June 29th (but didn't
email them out to asa-minutes@mit.edu, like they're now required to
do)... I guess 2 months late is better than nothing.
The UA senate, on the other hand, has no updates since April 19th...,
and is still missing several meetings from prior to that.
--jhawk
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