SWIL board
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The SWIL Board is the bulletin board on the first floor of Parrish allocated to SWIL for announcements as a chartered club. The board was the logical place to post copies of the paper SWIL News, flyers for upcoming events, and other assorted announcements.
The original SWIL board was known for being somewhat plain and purple compared to the new one created after the Parrish renovations, which is multicolored, bears much unnecessary three-dimensional decoration, and bears no evidence of a coherent design philosophy. Many still remember the original SWIL board being the center of the April Fool's "W" crisis.
There are two main tasks associated with the bulletin board: keeping it up, and keeping it. The former is the job of the miniprops. The latter is usually done by the presidents, but i'll discuss both here.
The bulletin board should contain:
- prop for the next week's movie
- a list of the semester's movies
- a printout of the last week's swilnews
- prop for any other upcoming events
- a list of weekly topics for the Science Fiction Discussion Table, if it's still alive and planned in advance
- contact info for officers
- information on where SWILmeeting is, how to join, etc
- nifty stuff (photos, cartoons, calligraphy in Quenya, etc)
Basically, miniprops should be in charge of all these things, though if someone else is propping an event, they should remember to put a copy of the prop on our board. Nifty stuff can be contributed by anyone, especially by someone who owns a camera. When we had business cards printed up (http://www.vistaprint.com) with the fun list's email address on them, I think we had a little box of those people could take.
The bulletin board should also look nice, meaning that it should have a background, a border, maybe some little pictures, and other stuff like that. If a miniprop puts himself in charge of this, it may actually happen. The miniprop is welcome to schedule a time for group decorating of the SWIL board and try to recruit help.
Once a semester, year, or eon, the Parrish boards are reassigned. There is a student council position called Outreach Chair which is currently responsible for doing this. (This may now be simple the "Student Groups Coordinator.") An e-mail should go out to reserved-students about this, and one of the presidents should jump on this and put themselves (or someone) in charge of it. (Miniprops, if the presidents haven't done this, remind them.)
This stuff about the proposal probably isn't true anymore:
This involves writing a proposal based on the current list of questions, and turning it in before the deadline. Do it immediately so you don't forget. Then keep an eye on the student council board for more information -- one year, i happened to notice the sign saying all our stuff would be thrown out if it wasn't moved by the deadline. Of course, i noticed it on the deadline in question.
When writing your proposal, try to give them every reason possible not to move us. This may be harder now, since we have a nice board location, but it's much easier for us if we don't have to put our stuff somewhere else once a semester. Basically, we provide lots of stuff for the campus (weekly movies, cordwainer, the hunt), we have half a board, we need half a board, we're happy, leave us alone. Mention that we've had a board since the 1980s. There's no particular reason we should need to lose the board. (There's also no particular reason we need a full board, unless the character of SWIL changes a lot -- we do pretty well with the current half board.)
