I'm president of two clubs on campus. One is departmental and one is BYUSA. I strongly dislike BYUSA. The clubs VP last year told me that the primary value that BYUSA can provide my clubs is to show us how to really party and have fun. The mandatory meetings are invariably a waste of my time.
The one thing that BYUSA does offer though, is accessibility for advertising. It is *much* more challenging to advertise across campus when you're a departmental club. Otherwise, I would have removed yMac from BYUSA long ago. I have tried to talk them into granting my other club advertising rights, in light of the service it provides, but to no avail. -Ben > From: Troy Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:03:37 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [uug] UUG and BYUSA (was: Elections!) > > Last year, the BYU Sailing Club had to make that transition. We are now > a club under the engineering department. The effects for the sailing > club were nothing but positive. Scheduling is the same: our officers > don't have to go to BYUSA meetings, less restrictions on fundraising, no > mandatory service requirements, and so on. The biggest requirement is > getting an advisor who is in the department. > > Organizing under a department does nothing to limit the membership to > students from that department, so that shouldn't be a problem. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Lars Olson > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 10:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [uug] UUG and BYUSA (was: Elections!) > > Stuart Jansen wrote: >> On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 22:34, Jayce^ wrote: >> >>>> - get the club out of BYUSA >>> >>> Wouldn't that just be PLUG :) >> >> No, but it bears some discussing. The most likely option is trying to >> become a CS department club. I worry a little about that, but having >> dealt with BYUSA I don't want to stay where we are. >> > > Hmmm... Anyone remember that BYUSA-president campaign a while back > where they promised to get rid of the BYU-approved housing policy? > (Hint for those who don't remember: they had to withdraw their > candidacy when it was discovered there was no way they could ever make > good on their promise.) > > My question: is it possible to get the club out of BYUSA? If so, would > > there be side effects? (e.g. have to meet off-campus, lose funding (do > we get funding?), lose phantom.byu.edu, umm... anything else?) > > I'll admit, I haven't done any homework behind these questions. I have > no idea what BYU's club policies are. Someone "in the know": what are > the pros and cons of this idea? > > Lars > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
