From ruk04 at hampshire.edu  Tue Dec  4 18:22:28 2007
From: ruk04 at hampshire.edu (Rafferty Underhill Kenney)
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:22:28 -0500
Subject: [Coca] thank you cards
Message-ID: <1196810548.4755e134bee75@webmail.hampshire.edu>

Hey Alex,
   Sorry for not getting that e-mail sent out to you earlier. I've had tons to
do/sleep deprived and we'd still been trying to figure out our account(s). For
making thank you notes all you need to do is go to duplications and ask if they
could make up one hundred 5x7 cards with the Hampshire tree logo stamped on
front, to be charged to account 611. To get there, take the library elevator to
groundfloor, and when you get out PubSafety is on your left and there's a
hallway to your right. Take that right and then a second right, and
duplications will be down that hallway on the right side. For what to have
written in them, they can simply say "Thank you" or "COCA wishes to thank you"
but I below is a possible thing to have printed (unless anyone thinks it needs
to be changed) that I think might be best:

"We wanted to thank you for your help in making Hampshire Halloween 2007 a
success. We all greatly appreciated having you here to make the night a safe
and fun event for well over two thousand guests, students, staff, and faculty,
and also for being a part of bringing together one of the most well known
celebrations in the valley.
Wishing you a happy holidays, "

I don't know how backed up duplications would be and how busy you are so I don't
know whether it'd be done before Thursday's meeting, which is okay. Thanks for
your help Alex. Good luck with the end of the semester!
~Raff


From ruk04 at hampshire.edu  Tue Dec  4 20:32:28 2007
From: ruk04 at hampshire.edu (Rafferty U. Kenney)
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:32:28 -0500
Subject: [Coca] End of Semester
Message-ID: <1196818348.4755ffacc0fb6@webmail.hampshire.edu>

Hello everyone,
   Thank you all so very much for your involvement in COCA for Fall 2007. I
would especially like to thank Tara for going out of her way to manage and put
together a very large section of Hampshire Halloween largely on her own. There
are some things that happen at Hampshire because of one or a few people who do
them outside of paper trails, something that someone once said to me as
"Hampshire has a lot of unsung heroes." Tara, you're one of those people, and
we really appreciate that you went out of your way to put all of that together.

   I also think a lot of people underestimate their input at Hampshire. Too
often it's a minority of students who attend all community meetings, and far
fewer who ever attend any COCD/COCA/FiCom/Council etc. meetings just to know
what's going on. This is important because those chance meetings in which a few
hours of time are sacrificed may turn into something far greater. Several years
ago I thought I did practically nothing my first semester on COCA beyond
standing next to a bouncy castle at SpringJam which, in retrospect, mattered
because not a lot of other people were willing to sacrifice a few hours (and
let us order more stuff instead of hiring more staff). Just to know what's
going on matters a lot because not a lot of people do.

   Part of the reason for saying this is to thank all of you for your time and
effort this Fall, but also because some of you who are first and second years
could be the future of COCA (and everything else at Hampshire). As you know,
Shane and I are Div III, which means that we will be far less involved this
Spring and wholly absent thereafter, so we need you to be prepared to take
charge in the future if you so choose. I remember sitting around watching
chairs like Ally Schweitzer(class 03) and Rachel Nagler(class 02) and feeling
like there wasn't a point to me sitting there. Had I not joined in S05, Shane
wouldn't have joined, SpringJam'07 may have been awful, and lord knows what
would've happened to previous Halloweens had Ally never joined when she was
younger. My point is that little things always add up, and Ally is currently
working/living in Washington DC for the Sierra Club and The Washington Post
(her first article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301643.html)

   Since it's finals week I don't expect everyone to show up this Thursday, but
it would be cool if you are able to come. We will mostly be wrapping things up
and talking about the following semester, how things will work during JanTerm,
recruiting new members, and the future of COCA. New bylaws are being drafted,
and should be edited and finalized by the Spring, which will create new officer
positions (among other things). Although these positions need to be filled,
doing no more than attending a few meetings is important in its own right. Many
things at Hampshire happen poorly/don't happen or cease to exist simply because
there are no new people to do it and no one knows about it anymore. Sometimes
entire branches of the school cease to exist, for Hampshire basically lost its
entire legislative and judicial branches, with only the quasi-executive branch
remaining in Council and its sub-committees. Many big things happen because of
the students (the Yurt was a Div III from 1988, became media center in 2001,
and is currently run by students), whereas many others do not (I know little
other than there once being a Judiciary wherein students had input on
disciplinary procedures, and that the senate voted itself out of existence.)
Although I have many personal gripes about Hampshire?s student freedom, the
students here have far more power than they realize--it?s just a matter of
responsibility in exercising it. Hope to see you in the future and thanks for
being there.

Good luck with finals,

-- 
Rafferty Kenney, co-chair
Committee on Community Activities
Hampshire College
P.O. box 0891
Amherst, MA 01002
(518) 928-7129






From tamj05 at hampshire.edu  Wed Dec  5 08:08:48 2007
From: tamj05 at hampshire.edu (Tara Jacob)
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:08:48 -0500
Subject: [Coca] End of Semester
In-Reply-To: <1196818348.4755ffacc0fb6@webmail.hampshire.edu>
References: <1196818348.4755ffacc0fb6@webmail.hampshire.edu>
Message-ID: <1196860128.4756a2e0a1162@webmail.hampshire.edu>

Hello COCA,

Thanks muchly for the recognition, Raff!

& actually, I have an application for COCA.

A screening of an awesome documentary, Frank & Cindy with a Q&A with the
director himself happened yesterday as the result of a collaboration between a
professor and myself. It was really fun and interesting, and about 35-40 people
attended. It cost $300 to fly GJ Echtenkamp, the director, here, and we applied
for funding to the Special Activities Fund and the GE house office.

The SAF originally approved us for $250, but later changed it to $150, saying
that they couldn't provide 'all or most' of funding. But that left us $100 down
two days before the event!

So, here's our proposal and breakdown. I'm not sure if you grant funding
retroactively, but that would be awesome!

BUDGET: $300
Flight: 300

BREAKDOWN
GE House Office: 50
Special Activities Fund: 250
COCA: 100

An extra $50 to pay him would be great, but we're totally fine with just
reimbursing him for his flight! The account is the Film/Photo/Video Account,

Thanks very much, I'll be presenting this at the meeting Thursday - I just
wanted to give y'all a heads-up!

Thanks,
Tara

Quoting "Rafferty U. Kenney" <ruk04 at hampshire.edu>:

> Hello everyone,
>    Thank you all so very much for your involvement in COCA for Fall 2007. I
> would especially like to thank Tara for going out of her way to manage and
> put
> together a very large section of Hampshire Halloween largely on her own.
> There
> are some things that happen at Hampshire because of one or a few people who
> do
> them outside of paper trails, something that someone once said to me as
> "Hampshire has a lot of unsung heroes." Tara, you're one of those people, and
> we really appreciate that you went out of your way to put all of that
> together.
>
>    I also think a lot of people underestimate their input at Hampshire. Too
> often it's a minority of students who attend all community meetings, and far
> fewer who ever attend any COCD/COCA/FiCom/Council etc. meetings just to know
> what's going on. This is important because those chance meetings in which a
> few
> hours of time are sacrificed may turn into something far greater. Several
> years
> ago I thought I did practically nothing my first semester on COCA beyond
> standing next to a bouncy castle at SpringJam which, in retrospect, mattered
> because not a lot of other people were willing to sacrifice a few hours (and
> let us order more stuff instead of hiring more staff). Just to know what's
> going on matters a lot because not a lot of people do.
>
>    Part of the reason for saying this is to thank all of you for your time
> and
> effort this Fall, but also because some of you who are first and second years
> could be the future of COCA (and everything else at Hampshire). As you know,
> Shane and I are Div III, which means that we will be far less involved this
> Spring and wholly absent thereafter, so we need you to be prepared to take
> charge in the future if you so choose. I remember sitting around watching
> chairs like Ally Schweitzer(class 03) and Rachel Nagler(class 02) and feeling
> like there wasn't a point to me sitting there. Had I not joined in S05, Shane
> wouldn't have joined, SpringJam'07 may have been awful, and lord knows what
> would've happened to previous Halloweens had Ally never joined when she was
> younger. My point is that little things always add up, and Ally is currently
> working/living in Washington DC for the Sierra Club and The Washington Post
> (her first article
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301643.html)
>
>    Since it's finals week I don't expect everyone to show up this Thursday,
> but
> it would be cool if you are able to come. We will mostly be wrapping things
> up
> and talking about the following semester, how things will work during
> JanTerm,
> recruiting new members, and the future of COCA. New bylaws are being drafted,
> and should be edited and finalized by the Spring, which will create new
> officer
> positions (among other things). Although these positions need to be filled,
> doing no more than attending a few meetings is important in its own right.
> Many
> things at Hampshire happen poorly/don't happen or cease to exist simply
> because
> there are no new people to do it and no one knows about it anymore. Sometimes
> entire branches of the school cease to exist, for Hampshire basically lost
> its
> entire legislative and judicial branches, with only the quasi-executive
> branch
> remaining in Council and its sub-committees. Many big things happen because
> of
> the students (the Yurt was a Div III from 1988, became media center in 2001,
> and is currently run by students), whereas many others do not (I know little
> other than there once being a Judiciary wherein students had input on
> disciplinary procedures, and that the senate voted itself out of existence.)
> Although I have many personal gripes about Hampshire?s student freedom, the
> students here have far more power than they realize--it?s just a matter of
> responsibility in exercising it. Hope to see you in the future and thanks for
> being there.
>
> Good luck with finals,
>
> --
> Rafferty Kenney, co-chair
> Committee on Community Activities
> Hampshire College
> P.O. box 0891
> Amherst, MA 01002
> (518) 928-7129
>
>
>
>
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