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If anyone else reading this is a member of the old CCAC club, hold onto your seats. I've got baaad news. I've gotten word from Mandy that the Confederation College Anime Club had to go on hiatus for financial and administrative reasons.
Now, the Club annoyed me at times, but Laura managed to pull together a damn fine club out of nothing. We were making a good amount of money from donations and we gave that back to the members through pizza and raffle prizes and everyone was happy. We had what was basically the only fully running club in the whole college. And now... it's been taken away from the people we left it to.
A little background: last year the college installed some new projector system into the lecture theater. Before, we only had this tiny projector on a cart that we rolled out and hooked up the audio to, AKA the Cart Projector. That was a fair bit of manual work, mostly playing with the audio. Then, that was all updated and then we had a shiney new system with much easier controls. Included in this set up were two new projectors: the Big Projector and the Little Projector. We used the Little Projector more often then not. It was a new version of the Cart Projector and projected a smallish picture. We had found that using the Big Projector resulted in a picture that looked good, but was too big. It gave somes people headaches to read the subtitles.
Apparently, the group that took over the Anime Club after we left used the Big Projector 5 times over the summer, resulting in the current problem. The bulb burned out and the bulbs for the Big Projector cost an arm and a leg. The Anime Club has become a scapegoat; someone in the higher ups has blamed them for burning the projector out. Because, you know, it had to be the Club using the projector 3 hours of the week who caused this problem and not the classes that used that projector several hours each day.
Logic, people! Logic!
Lee Johnson, head techie guy, decided that they have to charge everyone for use of the lecture theater. He told the Club leaders that he was going to charge them $100 an hour. Of course, that's despite that the current rental fee is $175 per USE and that SUCCI's current records state that students can use the theater for free.
The Club leaders tried to prove that they, and us before, got the rental of the theater for free. They went down to Bookings to print off proof. Well... it turns out that all the bookings don't exist. Yep, all the bookings that Laura did, some of which I was a witness to, didn't happen according to records on file. Therefore, there's a chance they could accuse us of using the theater without permission. I have no idea if that puts us on the bad side of trespassing laws.
Adding even more to the stupid, the Club can't get ahold of the Smart Rooms, classrooms that are wired with projectors. Because those rooms are "rentable", the college doesn't want to loan them out to students. Yeah. The Club has no where to go anymore and are being ripped apart by college management.
I don't attend the college anymore, but I helped run this club. Heck, I was one of the founding members. It hurts to see what we worked hard on get crushed like this. We were probably the only successful club while we were running - is that why the colllege hates us? We probably would have paid for a rental if we needed to, but at $175 - $300 a night? We were lucky to make $40 at a meeting and most of that had to go back to cover the other costs. On top of that we paid the freaking tech fees at the start of each year so we could have access to this equipment.
On that note, it wouldn't surprise me if the root of this problem is the non-student members. Some of them were okay, but others were total assholes like Alex. We students paid for this club through our fees and donations, but there were some non-students who were free loading. No fees or donations. Then again, I doubt that LUM over at Lakehead had to deal with this crap, since I attended there for a while with no problem.
Now, the Club annoyed me at times, but Laura managed to pull together a damn fine club out of nothing. We were making a good amount of money from donations and we gave that back to the members through pizza and raffle prizes and everyone was happy. We had what was basically the only fully running club in the whole college. And now... it's been taken away from the people we left it to.
A little background: last year the college installed some new projector system into the lecture theater. Before, we only had this tiny projector on a cart that we rolled out and hooked up the audio to, AKA the Cart Projector. That was a fair bit of manual work, mostly playing with the audio. Then, that was all updated and then we had a shiney new system with much easier controls. Included in this set up were two new projectors: the Big Projector and the Little Projector. We used the Little Projector more often then not. It was a new version of the Cart Projector and projected a smallish picture. We had found that using the Big Projector resulted in a picture that looked good, but was too big. It gave somes people headaches to read the subtitles.
Apparently, the group that took over the Anime Club after we left used the Big Projector 5 times over the summer, resulting in the current problem. The bulb burned out and the bulbs for the Big Projector cost an arm and a leg. The Anime Club has become a scapegoat; someone in the higher ups has blamed them for burning the projector out. Because, you know, it had to be the Club using the projector 3 hours of the week who caused this problem and not the classes that used that projector several hours each day.
Logic, people! Logic!
Lee Johnson, head techie guy, decided that they have to charge everyone for use of the lecture theater. He told the Club leaders that he was going to charge them $100 an hour. Of course, that's despite that the current rental fee is $175 per USE and that SUCCI's current records state that students can use the theater for free.
The Club leaders tried to prove that they, and us before, got the rental of the theater for free. They went down to Bookings to print off proof. Well... it turns out that all the bookings don't exist. Yep, all the bookings that Laura did, some of which I was a witness to, didn't happen according to records on file. Therefore, there's a chance they could accuse us of using the theater without permission. I have no idea if that puts us on the bad side of trespassing laws.
Adding even more to the stupid, the Club can't get ahold of the Smart Rooms, classrooms that are wired with projectors. Because those rooms are "rentable", the college doesn't want to loan them out to students. Yeah. The Club has no where to go anymore and are being ripped apart by college management.
I don't attend the college anymore, but I helped run this club. Heck, I was one of the founding members. It hurts to see what we worked hard on get crushed like this. We were probably the only successful club while we were running - is that why the colllege hates us? We probably would have paid for a rental if we needed to, but at $175 - $300 a night? We were lucky to make $40 at a meeting and most of that had to go back to cover the other costs. On top of that we paid the freaking tech fees at the start of each year so we could have access to this equipment.
On that note, it wouldn't surprise me if the root of this problem is the non-student members. Some of them were okay, but others were total assholes like Alex. We students paid for this club through our fees and donations, but there were some non-students who were free loading. No fees or donations. Then again, I doubt that LUM over at Lakehead had to deal with this crap, since I attended there for a while with no problem.
