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" : > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > COCA mailing list > COCA at lists.hampshire.edu > http://lists.hampshire.edu/mailman/listinfo/coca >