[Coca] End of Semester

[Tara Jacob]

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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