[2076] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Separating threads: Student Committee on
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Faber)
Mon Jul 10 16:32:32 2006
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:32:03 -0400
From: "Jacob Faber" <faber@alum.mit.edu>
To: "John Hawkinson" <jhawk@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060710202053.GX661@multics.mit.edu>
Cc: mit-talk@mit.edu
Reply-To: faber@alum.mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
Getting minutes out (and increasing transparency in general) is very
important. Are you saying that minutes were not distributed or the
minutes that were distributed were sub par? Both are important issues
and I just want to know which you're talking about (if not both).
On 7/10/06, John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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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