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Locker Allocation by Kernigit - Thu 31st Jan 2002, 7:01pm
John has sent an email out suggesting a policy for locker allocation in which he asks for comments. My opinion on the matter is that lockers should be given to those people who spend most time at the boat club not on some random lottery. After all the people who spend most time at the boat house will need to keep more stuff at the boat house (e.g. kit, towels, water bottles, maxim, training logs....). The easiest way that I can see to do this is to look at the speed / ability of oarspeople, although another argument would be to measure improvement. Another point that should be made is that if people who are heavy users of the boat house are to be deprived of lockers it might be an idea to be more tolerant to kit / other belongings which is left in the changing rooms - i.e. they can't be thrown away at the first possible opportunity! What does everyone else think?

by Can you tell I did a research MPhil? - Fri 1st Feb 2002, 9:06am
Surely the easiest way to see who spends the most time at the boathouse is to measure the easily quantifable 'time spent at boathouse'. Although how to measure this has its problems as people will know that their locker space is at risk and so would bid up their answers. An objective measurement - observing behaviour - would require someone to clock everyone in and out of the boathouse over an adequate sample time frame, which would not be a popular task. We also need to factor in the fact that some people need a locker space more than others - e.g. those who _need_ to shower atbh because they live in a part of college which doesn't have any showers. And that some people are happy without a locker space. Can someone (morning Graham!) come up with a formula which expresses these factors?

by Severing the Gordian knot - Fri 1st Feb 2002, 11:31am
Why not simply get some more lockers?

by Ludwig von Mises - Fri 1st Feb 2002, 11:39am
Why not let the market decide? Have an auction, with monies raised going towards a worthy spending project (I'm sure your Captain can think of one)... You could spend weeks arguing about the diffeent ways that an individual's need for a locker should be assessed (time spent ATBH, seniority, access to showers etc etc). However, the need of an individual for a locker can be expressed most easily via the price he or she is prepared to pay for it. I am aware of the "ability to pay" objection to this argument, but hardly see it as an issue.