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I’m the student who wrote the twitter thread. Let me know if you have any questions!

by mvh 4y ago

ColinWright 4y ago
Here's a chart of the discussion on Twitter: https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1578145220369084416.svg https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1578145220369084416.svg Useful to see if you've missed any comments that you'd like to reply to.
- mvh 4y ago
  Thanks!
matheusmoreira 4y ago
I just want to thank you. We need more people like you in the world. This sort of obscene surveillance should be illegal.
- mvh 4y ago
  Thank you! Keep in mind this was a joint effort by many, many students. I just happened to tweet about it first.
  - matheusmoreira 4y ago
    Thanks to your colleagues as well. It couldn't have been easy to stand up to them.
itronitron 4y ago
Props to you and your fellow students for being the professionals in the room (along with a few of the professors.)
- mvh 4y ago
  Thank you! Our faculty allies were very helpful as well, although in a more private way.
nixpulvis 4y ago
Have you tried finding allies in the faculty on this issue? I strongly reccomend you find a handful who share your concerns and leverage them to get this madness resolved. Sharing desks is hard, I'm curious if they are trying to use COVID WFH policy to justify over-accepting students, hoping the schedules just magically work out. Fun fact, they wont. No amount of metrics will stop two people wanting the same desk at the same time, if allowed. Or am I mistaken? Why else would monitoring desk usage be on the table (excuse the pun)? Surely they aren't trying to use these figures in evaluating a students work, right? I think it's pretty sad that Northeastern spent so much money building a fancy new science center, which is mostly unusable covered space, and now there aren't enough desks.
- mvh 4y ago
  We have some excellent faculty allies. The admin is interested in doing the same thing to faculty (making them share space) and so faculty is 100% on our side. Hence we had a public letter with 250+ signatures including many faculty. I agree they likely over-accepted and spent money poorly but I can't say for certain, as I'm not in admin and thus not privy to these details.

I’m the student who wrote the twitter thread. Let me know if you have any questions!

by mvh 4y ago

I’m the student who wrote the twitter thread. Let me know if you have any questions!

Here's a chart of the discussion on Twitter: https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1578145220369084416.svg https://www.solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/1578145220369084416.svg Useful to see if you've missed any comments that you'd like to reply to.

mvh 4y ago
Thanks!

matheusmoreira 4y ago

I just want to thank you. We need more people like you in the world. This sort of obscene surveillance should be illegal.

mvh 4y ago
Thank you! Keep in mind this was a joint effort by many, many students. I just happened to tweet about it first.
- matheusmoreira 4y ago
  Thanks to your colleagues as well. It couldn't have been easy to stand up to them.

itronitron 4y ago

Props to you and your fellow students for being the professionals in the room (along with a few of the professors.)

mvh 4y ago
Thank you! Our faculty allies were very helpful as well, although in a more private way.

nixpulvis 4y ago

Have you tried finding allies in the faculty on this issue? I strongly reccomend you find a handful who share your concerns and leverage them to get this madness resolved. Sharing desks is hard, I'm curious if they are trying to use COVID WFH policy to justify over-accepting students, hoping the schedules just magically work out. Fun fact, they wont. No amount of metrics will stop two people wanting the same desk at the same time, if allowed. Or am I mistaken? Why else would monitoring desk usage be on the table (excuse the pun)? Surely they aren't trying to use these figures in evaluating a students work, right? I think it's pretty sad that Northeastern spent so much money building a fancy new science center, which is mostly unusable covered space, and now there aren't enough desks.

mvh 4y ago
We have some excellent faculty allies. The admin is interested in doing the same thing to faculty (making them share space) and so faculty is 100% on our side. Hence we had a public letter with 250+ signatures including many faculty. I agree they likely over-accepted and spent money poorly but I can't say for certain, as I'm not in admin and thus not privy to these details.