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Minutes of the MIT Dormitory Council
November 6, 2003
Simmons Hall
Minutes recorded by: Joel Corbo
Present: Emily Cofer, Johhny Yang (Next), Mike Childress (New),
Nikki Johnson, Joel Corbo (Random), Marjan Bolouri (McCormick),
Snaggs, Dan (BC, MacG RLA)
NOT PRESENT: Senior Haus, EC, Bexley, Baker, Simmons, MacGregor,
Burton-Connor
Notes and Updates
a) where next meeting? EC!
b) CAC rep? Mike will see if he can make the meetings
c) Snaggs update:
we have $2000 for retreat, plus cost of staff (snaggs, barbera
baker, katie o'dair, steve tyrell, etc)
it will probably happen jan 24 and 25
thanks to snaggs for dinner!
Cloud 9 formal update (from Marjan)
tickets are now free due to LEF, 500 ppl max
PET POLICY
emily and johhny will talk to karen about what's going on.
we may set up a joint taskforce between dorms.
joel will let the people at random who are working on it know what's
going on with dormcon
SUMMER HOUSING
-new concept for summer housing: assign some dorms for conference
only, some for students/special programs (mites, interphase,
etc) only, rotate dorms to go off-line for renovations. this
is still very much in the early stages
-also discussion of role of grts for the summer; also the establishment
of some money to do student life programing for the summer
-also discussed creating a new set of paid student positions for
the summer as people to replace the functionality of the grts and
generally be in charge of things
-we should look into how graduating seniors will be treated in
the summer lottery
-senior segue people should move into graduate housing at the beginning
of the summer to avoid timing problems at the end.
REX: here we go again!
-the rumor is that the ARC wants to cut stuff from orientation
because its too long (like opening and closing ceremonies) our
idea is to move all housing/rex stuff to the beginning, maybe
make it start on friday afternoon and go until sunday night when
the lottery will close. then have orientation start on monday
and run straight through
--benefits:
separates housing from orientation
gets the frosh settled early, which means parent leave earlier
the arc doesnt have to deal with them for a few days (we could
even handle checkin)
makes things like the dorm dinners and welcomes from grts, housemasters,
governments, etc make more sense
it gives the frosh one less thing to worry about (where they're
going to live)
it makes dorm residents happy
it will make the housing system more fluid by discouraging inertia
it will make it easier to keep the frats out b/c we can say that
this is strictly dorm time, and can enforce that
it will make the parties (keep east the same, change west to a
block party) into ways to get people to meet each other(which is
what they are actually useful for) rather than trying to make them
part of the exploration, which they really arent
-emily will draft something this weekend
http://web.mit.edu/dormcon/
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