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\signature{Matthew Gray,\\
on behalf of the\\
Student Information Processing Board}
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% Recipients:
% bkaynor@mit.edu Robert Kaynor, Associate Director of Planning
% immer@mit.edu, Stephen Immerman, Director of Administration and Operations 
% simha@planning.mit.edu, Robert Simha, Director of Planning
% dunbar@mit.edu, John Dunbar, Space Administrator
% jdb@mit.edu, James Bruce, Director of I/S
% wrd@mit.edu, William Dickson, VP
% letters@the-tech.mit.edu
% cmvest@mit.edu
% institvte@mit.edu
\opening{President Vest,}

The recently announced plan to remove the Fishbowl Athena Cluster from
its current location should be reconsidered.  Students have exhibited
great support for the Fishbowl, and we believe moving it would be a
serious error.  We also believe the current location better serves
students than the planned alternatives.  The Fishbowl cluster already
achieves many of the desired goals of the Quickstations initiative,
helps geographical balance of clusters, and is typically visited more
often than any office that might replace it.  Our belief is that
taking this popular and heavily used space for in-person
Student Services activities is counterproductive in the context of
MIT's increasing efforts to automate interaction with the Registrar's
and Bursar's office. The current plan seems to encourage in-person
interaction, which is clearly much more expensive in terms of staff
costs for these offices, compared to students' use of on-line
alternatives such as SIS.  We urge the President, the Planning Office
and the Student Services Reengineering Team to maintain the Fishbowl
in its present location.



\closing{Yours truly,}

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