[2089] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Separating threads: Student Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jessica H Lowell)
Tue Jul 11 04:29:50 2006
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:29:27 -0400
From: Jessica H Lowell <jessiehl@mit.edu>
To: faber@alum.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <e9cc53d60607101329x561d7bactd6622006ae6bded@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "Pius A. Uzamere
II" <pius@alum.mit.edu>, mit-talk@mit.edu,
grace <gkenney@mit.edu>, Dheera Venkatraman <dheera@mit.edu>
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
Quoting Jacob Faber <faber@alum.mit.edu>:
> Chris brings up a great point. There is a lot of work that can (and
> probably should) be paid for, such as postering, running websites,
> administrative work, etc. It is not unusual for student government
> officials to be paid at other universities. I completely understand
> the backlash from student groups who say the UA gets too much money,
> but the level of attack received (I understand your pain Jessica) is
> unnecessary. The fact of the matter is (or at least was a couple
> years ago) that most groups are given much more money than they
> actually end up spending.
It is not unusual, or at least not _too_ unusual, at other
universities, for the
student government president to take the year that they are president off,
academically speaking, and to receive a salary. However, I suspect
that people
would not want to implement that at MIT. I wouldn't.
Chris' original point (that it's more useful for UA workers to spend
their time
on policy than on publicity and administrivia) is a valid one, but I don't
think his solution is either politically feasible or desirable. One
could call
on the PR committee to do such work, but personally I'd rather see PR
working to
inform the student body on the issues and what the UA is doing about
them, than
postering. Maybe each committee should designate a member to do its publicity
work, and then the rest wouldn't have to bother. Or maybe the UA
should keep a
list of volunteers for publicity work, and call upon the list when it needs.
- Jessie
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