[2091] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Separating threads: Student Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victoria K. Anderson)
Tue Jul 11 06:59:31 2006
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:59:13 -0600
From: "Victoria K. Anderson" <vkanders@mit.edu>
To: Jessica H Lowell <jessiehl@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20060711042927.ix7zvq34q83occ00@webmail.mit.edu>
Cc: Dheera Venkatraman <dheera@mit.edu>, faber@alum.mit.edu,
"Pius A. Uzamere II" <pius@alum.mit.edu>, grace <gkenney@mit.edu>,
mit-talk@mit.edu
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I don't think paying for students to do things like poster would be a
huge deal,
as long as they weren't involved as committee chairs or whatnot. I believe the
GSC pays somebody do to their postering for them, or at least they did 4-5
years ago. It's fairly inexpensive (about $10/hour) and would free up the UA
folk to do some substantive work.
Quoting Jessica H Lowell <jessiehl@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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