From bethanyu@u.washington.edu Mon Sep 25 02:17:00 2000 Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (root@jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.52]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id CAA12174 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 02:16:59 -0700 Received: from dante54.u.washington.edu (bethanyu@dante54.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.104]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.01) with ESMTP id CAA14110 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 02:16:58 -0700 Received: from localhost (bethanyu@localhost) by dante54.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id CAA45644 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 02:16:58 -0700 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 02:16:56 -0700 (PDT) From: "B. Underwood" To: "SCA at UW [Medieval Living History]" Subject: New college year. (Meetings/Status/etc.) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII For all of you that have been wondering where the heck I've been while all this discussion has been going on, let's just say that the half-week between getting back from San Francisco and the beginning of school has been very SHORT. And I like to take my time with emails that require intelligent answers. :) Anyway, hello all, it's me, the Senechal of the College (finally!). For those of you that don't know me, my name is Sonnet (pronounced Soh-NAY :), and I've been the "leader" of this group for the last 2.5 years or so. I am a UW student, and have only two quarters left (god willing!). The time has come for us to start another year. For most other SCA branches, the year begins at 12th night, or perhaps they come alive during tourney season. Colleges are unique in this aspect, as they start when the students are around, whenever that time is. Sometimes that can be every few years, if the students are local and always active, or sometimes it is in September, when students return to school, and interest in activities is at a new high. The College of St. Bunstable is obviously one of this second type. To say that the college dies during the summer is inaccurate at best. Yes, activity drops down, as people go off to "play" with other branches, or perhaps even move out of the area all together. This is completely acceptable, as it's much *easier* to do so. There is just plain more going on at the Kingdom and Baronial level during the summer months, and it's not so easy to keep everyone together when active people are off every which way. This is okay, but it does not mean that the College is AWOL. And who is the college anyway? As Badger pointed out, and I will agree with what I have observed in my (going on) five years with the College, the college isn't (or at least in this most recent incarnation) only a vehicle for UW students. There has often been a large contingent of people who are not students involved, and this is a wonderful thing, because there needs to be a mix so that the 'newer' can learn from the 'older'. Think about it, how much have any of us, or all of us, learned from Gordon Redthorn? Not because he's a student, but because he's got more SCA experience than the rest of us and yet he still considers himself a member of the College! To be part of the College, you don't have to be a UW student, you just have to want to be part of the College! And so this brings us to the beginning of the New Year. We have the 'old folks' (Me and Badger, etc.) who are ready to do things. We have the 'returning folks' (Robyn and Isobel, etc.) who are ready to do things. And we have 'NEW FOLKS' (new voices on the list, neat!) who, although we haven't met any of them yet, seem ready to do things. This shows me that the College is Not Dead Yet! Nor does it want to be. And there are things that need to be done. We need to register ourselves with the Student Activities office. That means I need FIVE students to sign their name to a form (that's about as far as your obligation goes, folks). We need to re-register our web page. We need to see who wants to be what officers (I want a new Chatelaine, people). We need to decide what we want to do for promotion this year. So that of course means we need to have a meeting. As we don't yet have a new static meeting place, I propose that the next meeting take place in the HUB in the lounge by the info desk on the main floor. Same time, same day of the month. (7PM on the First Monday of the month, for those unfamiliar with the regular times.) That means on OCTOBER 2ND, at 7:00PM. I want to see people there! If you have a major problem with this time every month, let me know. But I like this time, and I want to keep it there if at all possible. New people (please pardon my not knowing you all by name yet :) - PLEASE come to this meeting! Those of you that have mentioned your friends that are interested, bring them too! We welcome everyone. If this is the time to get the ball rolling, let's make sure there are people enough to do so. I think that there are enough of us who want to make this work. If you have questions, concerns, or if you just want to rail at me for taking so long to reply to this thread, just drop me a line. I'm sure I'll reply to you eventually (Did I mention that I have class in 7 1/2 hours? :) See you next Monday! In service to the College and all those other things, Lady Sonnet Manon ----- bethanyu@u.washington.edu || www.xcentric.net/sonnet || ICQ: 77041003 "The living usually cannot see the strange and unusual. I myself am Strange and Unusual." -- Lydia Deets .