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Post by bobb121 on Aug 25, 2006 16:29:43 GMT -6
I am in the process of forming a club at UHCL but am having 2 issues come up: 1) I need 4 more people who are currently enrolled in classes at UHCL to be officers. 2) Non UHCL students can not out number students. If anyone knows some people that are attending UHCL and would like to join a club to be officers. Please have them contact me at christopherwms@gmail.comThanks, Chris
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Post by bobb121 on Sept 2, 2006 1:57:04 GMT -6
Assuming i get approval from the chief of police, I should be able to hold practice as the university. And boy is it big!!! I should be able to hold an RYC there if they let me.
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Post by kd5mdk on Sept 3, 2006 2:20:35 GMT -6
I might point out it takes a lot more that a big room to hold a tournament. However, it certainly helps a lot to have one.
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Post by Dan Gorman on Sept 3, 2006 16:29:55 GMT -6
A big room is a great start. I'd even say it's one of the most important things.
Dan
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Post by schlager7 on Sept 13, 2006 10:52:54 GMT -6
Fencers, of course, help.
How are your numbers running, now?
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Post by bobb121 on Sept 14, 2006 19:31:51 GMT -6
I have been told that I should get a reply from the police chief by early october. Then I will be given $50 for advertising. I am also allowed to let people from the community fence at practice.
Chris
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Post by schlager7 on Sept 15, 2006 8:15:02 GMT -6
I have been told that I should get a reply from the police chief by early october. Then I will be given $50 for advertising. I am also allowed to let people from the community fence at practice. Chris It may help to show him a nice, standard, dry, non-threatening, rubber-tipped practice foil.
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Post by kd5mdk on Sept 18, 2006 0:39:51 GMT -6
Permission to have community members come to practice is a very good thing.
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Post by bobb121 on Sept 26, 2006 1:58:14 GMT -6
In response to your question, part of the problem is that the University has never had a sports club. And I have been told that the research should be done by sometime next week. Cross your fingers, there might be a new club in town!!!
Chris
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Post by fox on Dec 31, 2006 9:05:48 GMT -6
I don't know how your issues from earlier were resolved, but if you are still in limbo as far as getting accepted as a fencing club at the UH - Clear Lake, it occurred to me you might work back wards.
Instead of trying to form out of whole cloth on a campus that has never had a fencing club, it occurs to me that you might take advantage of the existing club in Clear Lake.
Get your core group to join their club then talk to their people about meeting with the school on your behalf. That way, if you do not have the requisite ten, however many interested bodies can still fence "in the neighborhood" while you build membership from the college.
Once you have your ten, talk with the Clear Lake people about acting as a sponsor.
The Clear Lake Fencing Club has been around at least a decade and that may give it some leverage you don't have as far as explaining that fencing is a perfectly sane, safe sport.
I note they have a respectable number of veteran fencers and that age factor might work in your favor when meeting with campus bureaucrats.
Then you can spin off a campus-only group.
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Post by Geezer on Oct 27, 2007 13:14:35 GMT -6
Well...having seen no word, nor post, nor enthusiastic discourse sinse, lo, these many months,...it might well be assumed that conventional conservatism has hounded down and maimed this fledgling spark of atheletic and sporting exuberance.
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Post by schlager7 on Oct 29, 2007 7:36:09 GMT -6
bobb121 was spearheading that project, so you might have to ask him.
My last knowledge was that the campus PD had issues about having them fence on the campus (safety, they use "weapons," you know).
He approached me about starting a campus club but fencing at CLFC. I went with fox' post above and suggested the reverse. I didn't see him much after that.
I presumed they either got access to campus facilities, fell apart as a group, or didn't want to pay our whopping $70.00/year for individual memberships.
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