gettin back into it

[Do_oM]

Heya guys,

Basically I'm trying to figure out what anime clubs are out there and actually running! I've been out of the game for a long while (I used to be a member of the MAS years n years ago but since they've gone under, I don't know where else to look and most of the sites I look up have their screening dates way outta wack (as in the most recently being mid 2009 or earlier!).

What I'm mostly looking for is a club with a lending collection as I'm getting so sick of crappy quality streaming off the net and most of the series I wanna watch are too old to get decent torrent downloads. I'm keen on gettin to some screenings too, I just can't do it regularly as I'm not a student.

So I was curious if you guys were already up and running this year and when and where I should drop by to get a membership and get my fix.

Cheers!

- Marcus

[Hogan]

Hate to tell you, Marcus, but the status of this club is questionable.

SAMA '09 was laughable, and since mid semester last year there has been no visible activity what-so-ever, which is a shame as we started with heaps of potential...

tbh, Monash Uni Clayton's MCAC is the most active that I know of, having quite a few friends over that side of the pond.

Of Course, If you'd like to stick around and try and revive this club, It'd be most appreciated, but I've all but given up after months of inactivity by the top. And I still have no idea where my membership money from last year went...

[Lord Sparks]

Melbourne Uni's WWWA is consistantly active, with a large library available. =S

Ah, i remember the good old days back in '07. SAMA was awesome then...

[Dimitrija]

Well u 2 might say its dead but still its a new year it could change drastically in the near future many new people who like anime/manga will join eventually i hope xD

[Hogan]

They pulled a no show at Oday...wtf.

The biggest day for club recruiting, and there was no stand. hell, the D&D crew were there. I had to help out with the tkd club, but it looks like nothing happened anyway...

WWWA and MCAC are quite large and well organized.

[Dimitrija]

Yeh i agree i searched all stands on Oday and nothing i was f**king shattered man i asked around for the Sama or any anime club but nothing seriously we should have just did one ourselves


 

i guess we arent gonna be so lucky with this at all

[ÜberFly]

Agk!

Sorry guys, I thought the club was dead!

I really didn't get a strong response at all in the last semester of 2009, I figured the club wasn't going to live. I've tried motivating people to take the initiative - many talk the talk, but don't walk the walk.

Due to an increasing workload and lackluster response for support, I had to concentrate all of my efforts towards my studies - It is, after all, the reason I attended RMIT

I am no longer the club president, and can no longer be club president as I am no longer a student at RMIT - I've graduated!

If you'd like to run the club, I'd be more than happy to help out however I can. Something I have noticed though is that RMIT doesn't really have excellent support for clubs of our type, mainly due to legal issues - whilst the screening of unlicensed anime isn't actually illegal (because no one holds the license for it in Australia, ergo the anime isn't bound by any laws yet) RMIT would rather distance themselves from any potential legal faux pas. Also, they'd rather keep on good grounds with any company by not doing anything rather than putting in effort to something that may piss someone off (I think we all know which crazy men we are talking about here).

Also, since the establishment of the student union (I don't consider VSU as anything great, sorry) RMIT seems to be happy with just letting clubs exist, as long as the uni doesn't have to do anything of real benefit. Sure, they can help subsidize clubs a bit, but most clubs need something RMIT doesn't want to part with - rooms. Especially ones with projectors.

I've tried rectifying this in the past by getting neutral locations to help us - if anyone can remember the Order of Melbourne debacle, I can assure you this isn't easy either.

In any case, I digress - If y'all want to run it yourselves, I'd be happy to help out. Just let me know who wants to do what, and I'll organise the site for you.

Also, if you'd like more clarification of the obstacles in your way, I'm glad to discuss these with you.

Just note - clubs seem to be falling by the wayside at RMIT. When I joined RMIT in 2005, I was bombarded by the student union - it was $160 a semester, and I thought it was worth every dollar. They had live acts, clubs of every nature - students had more say about what the uni was used for than the uni itself sometimes!

But that's no longer the case, the uni is very restrictive about what can be used and when.

I'll be watching this a little more closely in the next few days to come. (Cheers Stoolie)

Mark Walters,
Ex El Presidenté. 

[Stoolie]

Yeah, gotta say it was sad to see it get harder and harder to find venues, it really was a slow decline I don't believe SAMA deserved.  And it certainly wasn't for lack of trying.

 

[Luggage]

Wha?! People still using the forums?

Guess I'd better get back into my admin duties. 

[Dimitrija]

OMG WOOT! finnaly people we have some of the admins back again this is gonna be sweet i wont be alone anymore whne im on the forums 24/7


 

[Stoolie]

lol 

[Dimitrija]

Seriously guys Welcome back i don't give a damn if u guys left Uni or have finished up doesn't mean we cant meet up and just have an anime/Pizza orgies guys camon i have so much anime im pretty sure i have anime no1 has watched before

and if u have welcome too the club guys coz ive watched ALOT!



 

Well guys add me to msn we can talk and stuff exchange anime what games we play etc i hope some of u guys play modern warfare 2 that be awesome

Email is FoxDemon_jimmy@hotmail.com

add me now /roflstomp

[Lord Sparks]

The club still needs a current student to take over as president if you wanna try and get it back off the ground. Pretty much all of the admins and stuff for the site are former students, including myself. None of us can really do much.

Maybe try to get in contact with some of the former committee members who are still at Uni, see if they wanna try and get it off the ground.

[Dimitrija]

well sure that would be awesome but first of all dont know who the hell they are and who would be the admin

im sure i could go for admin but first of all i need to noe what the  admins rolls is on the site and what else he or she organizes but it would be better in my opinion if some of the other older community members who are still in uni too take over they would have more experience in the matter and also it be cool too look up too a sensei =D xD


   

[ÜberFly]

well sure that would be awesome but first of all dont know who the hell they are and who would be the admin

im sure i could go for admin but first of all i need to noe what the  admins rolls is on the site and what else he or she organizes but it would be better in my opinion if some of the other older community members who are still in uni too take over they would have more experience in the matter and also it be cool too look up too a sensei =D xD


   

I think you're confusing what the club needs. We already have more than qualified site admins...

What the club needs is a president, please refer to my previous post in this thread as to what it takes.