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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Garamond"><img alt="Inline image 1" src="cid:ii_137b3c681040ca76"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:right" align="right">
<font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond">June 3, 2012</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond">Dear
Undergraduate Community:</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:0.5in"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond">A letter from the Chancellor to the Housemasters
dated May 29th, 2012 was recently distributed to a number of the dorm lists.
The letter addressed a planned change in the roles of the support staff in the dormitory—namely,
replacing the five Residential Life Associates (RLAs) with nine Residential
Life Area Directors (RLADs) who would reside in the dormitories they serve. In
the letter, the RLADs were cited with responsibilities for “management of the
GRTs,” for “student-related issues such as advising, student government, and
student support,” along with coordination with the house managers and
Housemasters. The relevant hiring processes were expected to occur “over the
summer.”</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:0.5in"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond">As your student representatives, we are writing to
assure you that we have reached out to the Chancellor regarding student
involvement on this issue. As we hear more about opportunities to provide
feedback, we will update you about the ways you can become part of the process.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:0.5in"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond">In the meantime, we encourage you to think
critically about the most important elements of a strong residential support
system—what aspects of the current system could be improved, and in what ways? </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:0.5in"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond">To facilitate a broad campus discussion on
students’ needs, we have launched an idea bank on the UA Website (</span><span style="font-family:Garamond"><a href="http://ua.mit.edu">http://ua.mit.edu</a>)</span><span style="font-family:Garamond"> designed to assist in collecting, promoting, and
refining student ideas regarding this issue. We urge you to contribute, as your
feedback will help us tremendously as we attempt to articulate the student
opinion on residential support in the days and weeks to come. Please help us
demonstrate the great capacity of our community to innovate and tackle some of
the Institute’s most challenging problems by contributing ideas of your own.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:0.5in"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond">In the days and weeks to come, please do not
hesitate to be in touch with your dormitory president, GRTs, and housemasters.
Our joint UA / DormCon team will be listening, too, at </span><a href="mailto:residential-support-feedback@mit.edu"><span style="font-family:Garamond">residential-support-feedback@mit.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Garamond">.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:0.5in"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond"><span> </span>Jonté
Craighead<span> </span>Edward
Mugica<br>
<span> </span>UA President<span> </span>DormCon
President</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond"><span> </span>Michael
Walsh<span> </span>Janille
Maragh<br>
<span> </span>UA Vice President<span> </span>DormCon
Vice President</span></font></p>
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