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]
• https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/uaspaces/
• Permissions are set to only viewable and alterable by ua-spaceplan


• W20 Student Lockers [Mary]
• Operated by the CAC
• 30 Reading Room lockers on the 5^th 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:
1. 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
2. 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
3. Bill of rights for space
• Standards for space use
• Creating 3 overarching goals about space
4. 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
• Find out poll
• [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)