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DormCon Meeting Minutes - Mar. 18, 2004
Next Meeting: Thu. 4/1/04 7pm at New House
Officer Updates
CPW - Funding requests due to ARC by TOMORROW
I3 - all dorm I3 movies due to Joshua Velasquez <chillin> TOMORROW
- he is going to Cancun for break and must have your material before he leaves
Treasurer - out of $8,000 budgeted for dorm events, $5,000 total has been allocated
Copyright Issues
Dorms cannot show movies publicly to their entire dorm
Dorms CAN have a movie collection and charge rental fees
Serious legal consequences - two MIT student groups were fined a total of $12,000
recently
Housing Surveys
Rick Gresh presented comprehensive data from housing surveys, detailed
report will be e-mailed to dormcon soon
Funding Requests
Baker request for $600 to help provide refreshments at Rock Party
event on 4/3/04 approved
East Campus and MacGregor/Baker will make requests at next meeting
REX
Harvey is working on getting Killian Court for a large event
Other large event ideas include carnival-like event
rush04@mit.edu created
Funding this year will come from more standard sources, less reliance on Larry
Benedict’s office
JudComm
**detailed information to be sent soon by David and Jacqueline**
Three types of cases we might hear:
1. Appeals heard because (a) new evidence found since ruling, (b) procedural
guidelines not followed, or (c) sanctions not appropriate.
2. Cases against an entire building or an organization, e.g. against
a student group who committed postering violations, or against an FSILG who
committed vandalism.
3. Cases in which the dorm in which the infraction was committed does
not have an operating JudComm. If not heard by DormCon, these cases would
be heard by a dean’s panel.
General consensus was that type 1 should be heard by us, type 2 cases need
more details before we can hear these, and type 3 probably should not be heard
by us.
Punishments our JudComm could recommend: expulsion from a dorm or the entire
dorm system, community service, fines, or counseling or educational programs.
We CANNOT hear cases of 2nd time offenders
Questions of who should comprise the hearing panels have not been fully answered.
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