These efforts can be supported by the OME and through records of minority students being housed in Chocolate City. Chocolate City is not the only key to successful minority recruitment, but it is a crucial one that helps to augment the efforts of MIT to attract intelligent and capable minority students. I would be one of those students and I am sure every member of Chocolate City would testify to the same. Since the beginning of this program the amount of vans for Safe Ride has doubled from 2 to 4. It is apparent that the need is there but the institution is slow to realize the obvious.
Most dorms require serious renovations internally.
From repainting walls to new furniture, some of MIT's dorms require serious work. If the institution would stop building new dorms and make the current ones more suitable for living, it would be reflected in the general student attitude. Currently the only dorm cluster, I am aware of is in McCormick. As we all know, McCormick is less than a block away from the nearest Athena Cluster and still maintains 7 athena workstations and 1 quickstation. Yet, there are dorms on opposite sides of campus which only have 1 quickstation for a whole dorm.