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Meeting of the Dormitory Council
7/3/2002, 6:00 PM
Senior Haus
Agenda
I. Rush Updates
II. Freshmen Assignments
III. Contacting Frosh & Lottery #2
IV. Outside Bank Accounts
V. Upcoming Associate Dean for Student Conflict Management and
Discipline System
VI. RLA Search
Minutes
1. Rush Updates
R/O Chair Sherri Davidoff (alien@mit.edu) gave an overview of what
happened during the previous week’s rush chairs meeting.
All the info is posted online at: http://web.mit.edu/alien/rush/
. Also, the rush schedule can be found here: http://web.mit.edu/dormcon/www/rush_schedule_2002.doc
.
Sunday’s scheduled housemaster brunch was discussed. It was
unanimously felt that we try and change it to a whole-class, Dormcon
kick-off kind of thing. Stay tuned for future news...
2. Freshmen Assignments
Just prior to the meeting, RAC Chair Emily Cofer sent out an e-mail
with details on getting the frosh’s temporary assignments.
New assignments, including freshmen and transfers, were sent
out Friday, July 5th. Survey data was attached, but hard copy
can be picked up @ E32. Room assignments are due back to Denise
by July 15th, with a welcome statement for the dorm.
Emily is working on getting the usernames of the freshmen so that
we can contact them further. Some have left contact info on the
survey, but many didn’t.
3. Contacting Frosh & Lottery # 2
It has become very clear that the freshmen don’t understand
very well that they still can make a choice in dorms when they
arrive at MIT. All freshmen have MIT usernames at this point, so
it should be doable to contact them all in advance and let them
know what will be happening when they get on campus.
Each dorm will be responsible for contacting its freshmen and informing
them about rush. Freshmen should be encouraged to enter the second
lottery (in admin-speak: “Orientation Adjustment Lottery”),
even if they are squatting the dorm.
4.Outside Bank Accounts
The deadline has passed, but nobody’s quite sure about what
is going on right now. At this point, the services offered by MIT
is very lacking, including the following:
* No insurance on money (this is what led to oba’s in the
first place)
* No contract guaranteeing services, or the safety of our money
* No check writing ability
The dorms continue to feel strongly that OBA’s are necessary
to the dorm community, and we will continue to fight to keep the
accounts open. In case this fails, however, the MIT system still
needs many improvements, and Dormcon will continue to try and get
those implemented.
5. Upcoming Associate Dean for Student Conflict Management and
Discipline System Interviews for the ADSCMDS have been concluded.
Ross Benson, not present, is Dormcon’s representative on
the search committee. The job description for this position can
be found at: https://web.mit.edu/dormcon/www/secure_docs/dean.html.
6. RLA Search
New House/Simmons and EC/Senior/Bexley/Random are getting new RLA’s,
and the search is underway. On the core search committee are Tyler
Bronder, (“Evil”) Vikash Gilja representing NH/Simmons,
and David Lepzelter for the other zone. Preliminary resume screening
and phone interviews are completed, and five candidates have been
scheduled for on-campus interviews during the next two weeks.
Each of the dorm zones will have ~30 minutes to interview each
candidate during their day on campus. Names of volunteers will
be collected shortly.
Katie O’Dair, who is in charge of the RLA hiring process,
has stressed that if a suitable candidate is not found in this
round, the search will go on.
And with that, the meeting ended.
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