[SCA-BMDL] CMU involvement

[KaziBrionSCA]

Greetings!

 

As I recall, the only objection was the construction, combined with the
subsequent lack of parking.  It could be that somebody felt protective of
the newly sodded lawn.  If so, that lawn's been there for years now and I
think maybe we could give it a try again. It was a good location for many
reasons.  Regarding lawn quality, people played ultimate Frisbee across the
path from us, by the music hall.  That lawn took as much of a beating as our
part did.  

 

Why did we ever leave CMU for 12th night, again?  I always liked that site a
lot more than the one at Pitt.

 

Attracting students:  the SCA has a "stuck-up and expensive" reputation
amongst the students who care to LARP or do similar things.  Once our
practice was cancelled so I got to hang out with a group playing "Dagger"
(Cloth and PVC weapons, no armor).  Their impression was that SCAdians are a
bunch of nuts who hurt one another and like it, involvement is prohibitively
expensive, and SCAdians treat new people poorly (the periodicity police).  I
don't know what to do about it, but at least we know what the impression
seems to be.

 

Kazi

 

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From: sca-bmdl-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
[mailto:sca-bmdl-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Cara & Char
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:51 AM
To: Dist List BMDL; fightpractice at yahoogroups.com
Cc: Hayeslip, Roxann
Subject: [SCA-BMDL] CMU involvement

 

Greetings Good Gentles of the Debatable Lands!  As you have guessed from the
emails, last night's Officers' Meeting was a busy one.  One important topic
raised was our possible loss of Student Organization status at CMU due to
having an inadequate number of current students involved in the SCA.  We do
not want to lose this status for several reasons and would like to attract
more CMU students to join and attend our activities.  I volunteered to
coordinate efforts to do so.  

First, if you have ideas that would attract CMU students to the SCA, let us
hear them!  Some suggestions that can be workable sooner were:

--Flyers to advertise dance practice and electronic bulletin board postings

--Holding fencing and fighting practice on campus at the old location
outside Baker-Porter Hall this coming Sunday at 1pm (anyone who was involved
at the time we left that location, please try to recall any objections CMU
had to our presence.  We were not fighting then, but I seem to recall
something about not being able to fight on the grass due to tearing it up.)

 

Second, if you can contribute to transportation of CMU students to events or
practices, please let us know.  This has been an important point in the
past.  We had 3 CMU students coming out to heavy weapons practice but
transportation was difficult for them and we haven't seen them since last
winter.

 

Third, please consider holding a future event on the CMU campus, as we've
had in the ballroom in years past.

 

Thank you for an efforts in this area!

In Service,

Ariella

 

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