[Tang-residents] Heating Monitoring - Your Help is Needed

[Ulas Ziyan]

Dear Tang Residents,

As you know the heaters are turned on in the building as of October 13.

Unfortunately, many of you also noticed that Tang Hall has an older
heating system that lacks the comforts of the newer ones such that:

1. Facilities can't turn off the heater one day and turn it on the next
since it damages the system. Instead, they can cut back on the power,
which may leave some apartments still too hot without windows opened.

2. Residents don't have control over their apartments' temperature since
there are no thermostats.

Thus the best we can hope for is to keep the west/south side not too hot
and east/north side not too cold.

To fix this problem, we are planning to advocate for individual
thermostats for each apartment. That is an expensive transition for the
housing office and we will need some data to support our claim that the
heating system in Tang Hall is unsatisfactory.

You can help up by monitoring your apartment's temperature and record it
using our web site. Please feel free to fill out the form as many times
as you want since the more data we collect, the better our case will be.

You can access the form via the quick links on Tang's website or
directly at http://web.mit.edu/tang/www/government/feedback/heat/

I appreciate your help in collecting the data we need to advocate more 
effectively on your behalf.

Ulas Ziyan
THRA President