House Government

amherst alley docs?
client team reports?

Constitution

1962 (courtesy of Bill Collins '65)
1974
1981 amendment allowing dual Social Chairpersons
1982
1983 (might be the same as the 1982 version)
1997

Bylaws

1974 (multiple changes due to dorm going co-ed)
1982
1983 (might be the same as the 1982 version)
1997

Execcon and House Meeting Minutes

Sorted (more or less) by calendar year. But in random chronological order within the PDF file…

Calendar year 1969		House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1970	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1971	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1972	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1973	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1974	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1975	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1976	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1977	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1978	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1979
Calendar year 1980	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1981	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1982	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1983	Execcon minutes
Calendar year 1984	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1985	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1986	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1987	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1988	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1989	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1990	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1991
Calendar year 1992
Calendar year 1993
Calendar year 1994	Execcon minutes	House meeting minutes
Calendar year 1995
Calendar year 1996
Calendar year 1997
Calendar year 1998
Calendar year 1999
Calendar year 2000
Calendar year 2001
Academic year 2001-2002	2001-2002 combined (courtesy of Tyler Callahan)
Academic year 2002-2003	2002-2003 combined (courtesy of Tyler Callahan)
Academic year 2003-2004	2003-2004 combined (courtesy of Tyler Callahan)
Academic year 2004-2005	2004-2005 combined (courtesy of Tyler Callahan)
Academic year 2005-2006	2005-2006 (courtesy of Michael “Plaz” Plasmeier)
Academic year 2006-2007	2006-2007 (courtesy of Michael “Plaz” Plasmeier)
Academic year 2007-2008	2007-2008 (courtesy of Michael “Plaz” Plasmeier)
Academic year 2008-2009	2008-2009 (courtesy of Michael “Plaz” Plasmeier)
Academic year 2009-2010	2009-2010 (courtesy of Michael “Plaz” Plasmeier)
Academic year 2010-2011	2010-2011 (courtesy of Michael “Plaz” Plasmeier)

Documents of Interest

Baker Confidentials

The Tech (April 8, 1955)
~~http://tech.mit.edu/V75/PDF/N16.pdf~~
https://thetech.com/issues/75/16/pdf

“[The] Baker House Committee … next discussed the publication of a dormitory handbook to be distributed to freshmen entering Baker House.”

Baker Letters

We're looking for more back-issues…

Songsheets

Songsheets, from the 1960s…

Coed Living Proposal

A PROPOSAL FOR COED LIVING IN BAKER HOUSE FOR FALL 1974
March 12, 1974

coed_living_proposal.pdf

Freshman Handbook

Magazine Articles

Magazine articles about living in Baker House

Happy Anniversary, Baker House (Architecture Plus, July 1973): Probably one of the most thoughtful articles ever written about not just the architecture of the building, but about the interaction of the building and its residents. Written by Stanley Abercrombie (Senior Editor of Architecture Plus) on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Baker House. This article is definitely worth reading
"Technodarlings" (Playboy, September 1983): What happens when an unsuspecting reporter for Playboy falls into the clutches of a group of Bakerites who are more than willing to tell him what he wants to hear? You wind up with an article entitled “Technodarlings”, which was in the September 1983 issue of Playboy…
"Nerd U" (New England Monthly, October 1986): Another reporter for another magazine (New England Monthly) discovers that MIT is really intense, and its students are a little different…
"Relationships Between Physical and Social Structure in Baker House" (Tech Engineering News, December 1971): An interesting – but somewhat dated (and inaccurate?) – look at the social structure of Baker House was done in 1970 by R. Philip Dowds as a term paper for 11.34 (Psychology of the Environment).
Aalto's MIT Masterpiece (Metropolis Magazine, December 1, 2003): While the restoration of Baker House has some purists fuming the classic dorm has never looked better. Ted Smalley Bowen
A Modern More or Less Humane in Architecture Week, by Joseph E. Pollack. Comparison of Simmons Hall and Baker House.

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