Return-Path: Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 16:51:27 -0800 From: tar@isi.edu Posted-Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 16:51:27 -0800 To: cgdemarc@ai.mit.edu In-Reply-To: Carl de Marcken's message of Mon, 1 Nov 93 19:23:22 EST <9311020023.AA18360@theta> Subject: [cgdemarc@ai.mit.edu: GSL/GSB Messages] Reply-To: tar@isi.edu Sad to hear of the decline of GSL. I remember Dave Braunegg engaging in some heavy-handed tactics to get people to volunteer. He once stood at the head of the line and refused to let peop until the sign-up sheet for the semester was filled out. Unfortunately, this approach takes a heavy psychic toll on the coordinator. It also doesn't motivate the volunteers to create the good home-cooked meals you seek. About the only solution is to get two good groups at the start of the term to produce nice lunches and hope that peer pressure and expectations get the follow-on volunteers to do likewise. That is pretty much how we initially went from bread and cold-cuts to cooked food in the first place. It wasn't a planned effort, but one year some ambitious cooks got things started and everyone else was too embarassed to return to only serving cold cuts. I suppose not having GSL one week might also help to relieve the apathy. When I was writing messages, I always kept one handy for announcing the demise of GSL for those weeks when we weren't able to get volunteers. Getting people signed up was always one of the worst f the coordinator's job. ________________________________________________________________________ Thomas A. Russ, USC/Information Sciences Institute tar@isi.edu 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 (310) 822-1511x775