iy120@sdccs6.UUCP (11/18/83)
Science Fiction Fans!
How many people out there belong to Science Fiction Clubs? I belong
to a SF club, called "Dark Star", that is interested in contacting other
clubs. We are based at UCSD. We attempted about a year or so ago to
start a round-robin between the various SF clubs in the UC system.
Unfortunatly, this did not get off with a bang but a wimper!
We are interested in what activities you do as a club. Like fund
raising, club libraries, book discussions, star gazing trips, movie
trips, .....
Do you all have the problem of nasty male-female ratios? ( ie: lots
more males then females. Any suggestions for remidies to the above
situation?
We developed political power mongering problems whenever we had
any sizable amount of money to do things with. Our solution was to
stop having any money laying around. Any other solutions, or money
problems( other then not having any!)?
We also have encountered an interesting phonemenon. Most of the
techn. oriented members are comp-sci majors. Not really too suprising....
Well, I guess I'll leave it at that for now,
-- Don Coleman
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{ reigning president of "Dark Star" }
soon to be Dictator! Ha, Ha, Ha!MDC.JANICE%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA (12/01/83)
From: Janice <MDC.JANICE%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA> Don, I'm presently Vice (not Vice President, just Vice) of the oldest college science fiction club in existence, the MIT Science Fiction Society (MITSFS -- pronounced Mitts-fiss, *not* Misfits), founded 1949. We don't have too many activities. We did, in the dim and distant past, have a project to microfilm Astounding, but that died. We used to run movies as a fund raiser, but had to give it up when another group got a monopoly on showing movies on campus for which admission was charged. Our main activity now is running our Library, of which we are justifiably proud -- it contains over 30,000 items, including the complete works of everybody, almost every sf and fantasy magazine ever published in the English language, and lots of miscellaneous stuff, including a small sf porn collection. We have over 450 members (making us the largest student organization on campus), but most of those just read our books. Only about 30-40 are in any way active. We run the Library with volunteers, who get a key in exchange for keeping the Library open at least 2 hours/week and doing various duties necessary to maintain the collection. We avoid power struggles basically by not taking ourselves too seriously. Besides, officers don't have much power -- just a lot of responsibilities. We do have meetings every Friday, but they are just our chance to get together and be silly for an hour; we don't conduct any serious business. We do have two other activities -- publishing our fanzine, Twilight Zine, and holding our Roast Beef Rally (i.e. picnic) every spring. We're always happy to hear from other people and to show visitors around. I don't know how good we'd be at giving advice to a fledgling sf club, but we'd try. If anybody wants to know anything more, he/she should contact me directly -- I don't want to flame about this on the net any more than I have to. Janice -------
rene@umcp-cs.UUCP (12/04/83)
I belong to LUMSFS, formerly UMSFS (University of Maryland Science
Fiction Society) (we now meet Wednesdays at Lum's restaurant). We used
to be quite active, but the real 'drive' people graduated. We did
spawn a SF-con club, UNICON. The male-female ratio was pretty bad, but
lately I think it's about 3-1.
- rene
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"Peoles have feeelings, too"
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