UA Space Planning Committee
Meeting 10/20/2009
- Old Game Room [Janet]
- UA 2006 Poll (Students) what to do with the game room (Shee Shee will look into results of poll)
- Wiki [Mary]
- W20 Student Lockers [Mary]
- Operated by the CAC
- 30 Reading Room lockers on the 5th floor, 18 Game Room lockers
- These lockers are available to current, registered MIT students for personal use.
- Access
to Reading Room lockers is 24-hours per day, except when the building
is closed. Access to Game Room lockers is the operating hours of the
Game Room, 8 am to midnight, except when the building is closed.
- To obtain a locker assignment, you must enter the locker lottery, by completing the application form found on the CAC website, and sending the completed form to caclockerlottery@mit.edu or returning it to the CAC Office, W20-500 by 5 pm on the last day of the lottery.
- Lockers are rented out on a semester basis.
- $20 nonrefundable rental fee to MIT
- emailed caclockerlottery@mit.edu for statistics on student demand for lockers (cc Shee Shee)
- Preliminary Task Force Report [Shee Shee]
- There is a
UA response about elimination of Athena clusters: further studies are
needed for closing athena clusters: not to close (students don't always
carry around)
- Didn't reply about (below)
- Recommendations inc. three goals:
- Space economy
- Understand how people use space, what is currency for space
- Use space more effectively with danger of having it taken away or having people pay for it, understanding space usage
- Keeping track of how they use space
- There is no system for it now
- Dangers: overcrowding, not using space
- It can't be used as factor in planning because we don't know anything about it
- Bill of rights for space
- Standards for space use
- Creating 3 overarching goals about space
- More from Task Force Report (mostly in pp 65-67)
- Designing spaces so that they are modular and flexible so that in the long term you can make the most out of it
- Renovations: pushing for large scale whole building renovations, bundling projects to reduce cost
- Oct 31 is final due date for Task Force Report
- Task Force: amalgamation of recommendations
- [Janet] Lobdell
- Why not keep it open at all times?
- Why close when students could be using it?
- Janet will go in to CAC office in W20-500
- Ask if they have plans for the coffeehouse
- [Shee Shee] Game Room
- [Mary] Lockers
- Go to CAC office in W20-500 and ask about locker statistics
- [Mary] Microwaves
- Find out if there are microwaves already in spaces: Steam Cafe, Cafe 4 (doesn't), Coffeehouse (does), Verdes (does)