Alumni
Memories of Senior House: Life as MIT Housemasters by Henry Jenkins
Who lost Senior House? by Jim Pekar (SB ’81)
Thousands of hours of student time were lost preparing for, attending, and following up on meetings that were part of the official Turnaround, Probation, and Readmission processes for Senior House, all of which failed. These failures can be attributed to poor leadership. The Turnaround process lacked clear goals, objectives, and evaluation criteria. The Probation process lacked clear goals, objectives, and evaluation criteria. The Readmission process had the vague goal of creating “a new community” but no clear evaluation criteria.
Read More: https://thetech.com/2017/07/26/james-pekar-letter
Sport Truth
Only Lies Can Kill You…
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: 1300+ Alumni Sign Letter to Chancellor
Opinions from Alumni f/ in The Tech this week
Kendall Mahn (’02): Senior House is a vital refuge for its residents: thetech.com/2017/06/29/kendall-mahn-op-ed
Martin Martinez Riveria (’14, ’15): Keep it weird, keep it awesome; Why I and other students chose MIT thetech.com/2017/06/29/why-senior-house-is-great
Grappling With Its Identity, MIT Shuts A Dorm For Misfits (Matthew Herper ’99 via Forbes)
Students are being told, we need troublemakers. But in the case of Senior House, not troublemakers like you. [READ MORE]
Goodbye, Senior Haus! (Anonymous via Medium)
A Senior Haus alum who moved the fuck on. Don’t worry about it. [READ MORE]
Open Letter in Support of Senior House
All MIT Alumni are invited to add their name to an open letter to the MIT Administration in support of Senior House. Please share widely.
GoFundMe: Save Senior House
The students are continuing to fight throughout the summer, holding protests, solidarity BBQs, and attempting to archive the history and culture contained within the walls of E2. They can use your help. Please donate.
The Tech: Week of June 19
The entire front page of this week’s The Tech is filled with stories about Senior House.
- What Pilot 2021 is: https://thetech.com/2017/06/18/pilot-2021
- Community responds to Pilot 2021: https://thetech.com/2017/06/18/community-responses-to-pilot-2021
- How Pilot 2021 came about: https://thetech.com/2017/06/18/senior-house-depopulation
- Mike Short’s piece: https://thetech.com/2017/06/18/mike-short-op-ed
- Student leaders respond to Pilot 2021 (UA/FSILG presidents): https://thetech.com/2017/06/18/student-leadership-letter-pilot-2021
- Why Pilot 2021 is everyone’s problem: https://thetech.com/2017/06/18/why-everyone-should-care-pilot-2021
- McCormick housemaster’s piece https://thetech.com/2017/06/18/raul-radovitzky-letter-senior-house
- Senior Haus needs to change: https://thetech.com/2017/06/18/pilot-2021-senior-haus-letter