The recommendation calls for a Central Allocations Board, which would be led by students and consist of administration and staff members as well, Ives said. The board will provide a list of available funds from the departments on the central database. Students may still request funds from individual departments under the new system. Students have doubts about plans The design team has been collecting student input during the summer through various surveys, focus and advisory group meetings, and information booths on Registration Day. The purpose of the open meetings in coming weeks is to gather student input, Johnson said.
Some students have serious doubts about the proposals.
People may not be so willing to give up their control. The implementation of the activities center will likely necessitate hiring more personnel to advise student groups, which, in addition to the planned activities database, will cost at least several hundred thousand dollars more, said Andrew J. Rhomberg G, Graduate Student Council member. The co-curricular team is trying to bill the proposal as worthwhile under the assumption that alumni donations will rise if MIT supports student activities more, he said. But alumni will not necessarily be happy simply because MIT makes this one change. Student activities funding should take precedence over assigning new advisers to oversee groups, said UA Treasurer Russell S. Light '98.