[mit-habitat-exec] [ASA] Restructuring Update

[asa-exec@MIT.EDU]

Dear Student Group Officers,

Important changes are occurring in the ASA!  As discussed at the fall ASA General Body 
Meeting, and in a meeting in December to which all student groups were invited, the ASA 
is being redefined so that it might better fulfill its role as a voice for student 
groups and a joint committee of the Graduate Student Council (GSC) and Undergraduate 
Association (UA).  The goal is to complete this process by April.

Based largely upon feedback from student groups who attended the December meeting, the UA,
GSC, and ASA have worked together to propose the following documents.  The first document,
available at: <http://web.mit.edu/asa/www/UA-GSCbylaws.pdf> defines the purpose and 
structure of the ASA and would appear as a part of the UA and GSC Bylaws.  As with any 
other changes of the UA and GSC Bylaws, these changes will be voted upon by the UA Senate 
and GSC Council, respectively.  The GSC will vote on March 2nd, and the UA at its March 
14th Senate Meeting.  Upon the adoption of these bylaws, the ASA will function under the 
operating guidelines that appear here: 
http://web.mit.edu/asa/www/ASAoperatingguidelines.pdf.  

These Operating Guidelines incorporate the current ASA Constitution, the current standing
policies space reallocation procedure and the current bulletin board reallocation 
procedure. No significant changes were made in any of the policies of these documents - 
they are just now all collected together into the Operating Guidelines.

The ASA, UA, and GSC request your feedback on the documents. Please note that there will 
not necessarily be a General Body Meeting to put these changes into effect because once 
amended into the bylaws of the UA and the GSC, they are considered functional.  Thus, it 
is VERY important that you provide us with any comments or concerns you might have as soon
as possible. 

Please direct all emails to asa-exec at mit.edu <mailto:asa-exec at mit.edu> with "UA/GSC 
Bylaws" in the title.

Sincerely,
The ASA Executive Board

*****************************************************************************
*****************************************************************************
This email was sent by the ASA Executive Board to the officers of all MIT
Student Activities.  The ASA Executive Board moderates these mailings.
If you have questions about its contents please contact <asa-exec at mit.edu>.

You received this e-mail because you were listed as an officer of an MIT
Student Activity.  The recipients are generated automatically from
the Officer Email List of each student group, as stored in the
ASA Database.  To update the name of this list and other information
about a group, an officer of the student group must update the ASA
Database information at
  http://web.mit.edu/asa/www/asa-db.shtml

To update individual members of a list the list administrator must use
'blanche' or 'listmaint' in Athena, or access
    http://web.mit.edu/moira
with MIT certificates.  The ASA does not have direct control over the
individual memberships of officer's mailing lists.

The table below indicates which lists your username is in.  If you received
this e-mail in error please contact the current officers of the groups
listed.

Username        Officer's List       Group Name
---------------|--------------------|-------------------------------------------
mit-habitat-exec at mailman.mit.edu              mit-habitat-exec     Habitat for Humanity