Tonight's elections proved to be exciting, producing four new officers for the club. There were plenty of nominations, with President having 2 candidates, VP having 3, Treasurer having 2, and Secretary having 2.
After votes were tallied and a tie broken, the following came out victorious:
President - Jason Perez
Vice-President - Sarah Aguero
Treasurer - Patrick Lloyd
Secretary - Isaac Magallanez
Congratulations, officers! I firmly beleive that Mizuumi's 5th year will be filled with outstanding achievements and innovative activities.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
New Constitution & Bylaws
I'm pleased to report that the draft Constitution & Bylaws have been ratified by the members at tonight's meeting. In a 16 to 2 vote, the Committee's draft Constitution was approved. The draft Bylaws were also approved in a 12 to 3 vote. (Some members left after the first vote, which explains the discrepance in the totals.)
We will have elections next week using the rules set forth in the newly approved documents. Nominations will be taken from the floor at that meeting, and if seconded by another member and accepted by the nominee, the nominee will appear on the ballot. Members may nominate themselves, but not second themselves if they nominate themselves. :) A member may accept nominations for up to two offices, but may only serve in one.
We will have elections next week using the rules set forth in the newly approved documents. Nominations will be taken from the floor at that meeting, and if seconded by another member and accepted by the nominee, the nominee will appear on the ballot. Members may nominate themselves, but not second themselves if they nominate themselves. :) A member may accept nominations for up to two offices, but may only serve in one.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Review Copies
Here are review copies of the documents being created by the Constitution & Bylaws Committee.
Click to view the draft Constitution
Click to view the draft Bylaws
I'd suggest that interested people print these and review them, then bring them to the next meeting Thursday Sept 11th, at 5:30 pm in the Providence Hall Blue Room. Discussion time will be scheduled during that meeting. If there's lots of discussion and input from the members that the committee wants to integrate, they will work on the documents for another week. If the membership doesn't have a lot to say, we'll put these documents to a vote. Come prepared to discuss!!!
-Darrell
Click to view the draft Constitution
Click to view the draft Bylaws
I'd suggest that interested people print these and review them, then bring them to the next meeting Thursday Sept 11th, at 5:30 pm in the Providence Hall Blue Room. Discussion time will be scheduled during that meeting. If there's lots of discussion and input from the members that the committee wants to integrate, they will work on the documents for another week. If the membership doesn't have a lot to say, we'll put these documents to a vote. Come prepared to discuss!!!
-Darrell
Monday, September 08, 2008
Constitution & Bylaws Committee Update
Work on the Constitution & Bylaws is coming along nicely, and a draft version will be available this week for anyone who wants to read it. Sarah has chosen to resign from the Committee for personal reasons, and Isaac will be joining since he was the next highest vote-getter.
This week's meeting will feature a time for members to make comments on the draft documents. The vote to ratify the Constitution & Bylaws will be delayed until the September 18th meeting so that comments from the members and from me can be considered. I haven't made time to write my comments yet, so my apologies for that.
If things go well, we should be able to elect officers at the September 25th meeting.
Let us know your thoughts either by email or commenting here.
-Darrell
This week's meeting will feature a time for members to make comments on the draft documents. The vote to ratify the Constitution & Bylaws will be delayed until the September 18th meeting so that comments from the members and from me can be considered. I haven't made time to write my comments yet, so my apologies for that.
If things go well, we should be able to elect officers at the September 25th meeting.
Let us know your thoughts either by email or commenting here.
-Darrell
Friday, August 29, 2008
Minutes for 08-28-08
The Mizuumi Anime Club’s first meeting of the semester went well last evening. We had 14 attendees. We followed the agenda pretty closely, interrupted only a few times by comic mischief. ^_^ In addition to a good talk about plans for Mizuumi-Con by con chair David Ramirez, we nominated members for, voted on, and formed the Constitution & By-laws Committee.
I’m pleased to report that the following five fine individuals have stepped up to take on the challenge of writing new documents to guide the club in the coming years. Thanks to all who agreed to be on the ballot. The five top vote getters were, in alphabetical order:
Sarah Aguero
Jose Luis De La Cruz
Erin Lynch
Christopher Pagonis
Jason Perez
The committee will meet first on Monday, September 1st to begin their work. Comments and suggestions sent to the club email account (mizuumi@lake.ollusa.edu) will be forwarded on to them. If you have ideas for the new constitution & by-laws, please send them in. A draft of the documents is to be turned in to me by September 9th, at which time I will make comments to the committee and post the draft to the website for members to review. We’ll have a discussion and review period at the next meeting on September 11th. The location is TBA, but I plan on getting the blue room again. If no major changes are made during the discussion period, members present will vote to ratify or reject the draft. Then we can get on to the fun part.
At the first meeting of Fall 08
Respectfully submitted,
Darrell Hoberer, Advisor
I’m pleased to report that the following five fine individuals have stepped up to take on the challenge of writing new documents to guide the club in the coming years. Thanks to all who agreed to be on the ballot. The five top vote getters were, in alphabetical order:
Sarah Aguero
Jose Luis De La Cruz
Erin Lynch
Christopher Pagonis
Jason Perez
The committee will meet first on Monday, September 1st to begin their work. Comments and suggestions sent to the club email account (mizuumi@lake.ollusa.edu) will be forwarded on to them. If you have ideas for the new constitution & by-laws, please send them in. A draft of the documents is to be turned in to me by September 9th, at which time I will make comments to the committee and post the draft to the website for members to review. We’ll have a discussion and review period at the next meeting on September 11th. The location is TBA, but I plan on getting the blue room again. If no major changes are made during the discussion period, members present will vote to ratify or reject the draft. Then we can get on to the fun part.
At the first meeting of Fall 08
Respectfully submitted,
Darrell Hoberer, Advisor
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Q&A
Questions I've been asked lately, and answers too.
Q:I can't attend today, but I want to be on the Constitution & By-laws committee!
A: Just email mizuumi@lake.ollusa.edu and say you want to be on the ballot, and you will be.
Q: Will you be emailing minutes of meetings out?
A: No, but I will post them here on the site, and will encourage the new secretary to do the same.
Q: Will the regular meetings be on Thursday at 5:30?
A: Not necessarily. The new officers will plan those. If there is a time you particularly like or dislike, let us know.
Q: Will there be free food?
A: Not this time, but maybe in the future... ^_^
Q:I can't attend today, but I want to be on the Constitution & By-laws committee!
A: Just email mizuumi@lake.ollusa.edu and say you want to be on the ballot, and you will be.
Q: Will you be emailing minutes of meetings out?
A: No, but I will post them here on the site, and will encourage the new secretary to do the same.
Q: Will the regular meetings be on Thursday at 5:30?
A: Not necessarily. The new officers will plan those. If there is a time you particularly like or dislike, let us know.
Q: Will there be free food?
A: Not this time, but maybe in the future... ^_^
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Fall 2008
Welcome to Fall 2008!
I'm looking forward to a great year this year, with some new ideas and a new direction for the club. We had a good Club Rush today, handing out AP comics to those who signed up for the mailing list and, of course, we had plenty of Lucky Candies to go around.
Members Jose Luis De La Cruz and Christopher Pagonis
We had 21 students sign up for the mailing list, and I'll be adding them tonight.
Tomorrow, August 28, 2008, we'll have our first meeting of the semester. This will be mostly a "business" meeting to start the work I talked about in my previous entry. The meeting will be at 5:30 pm in the Providence Hall Blue Room. All members of the OLLU community are welcome to attend. Printed agendas will be distributed, but here is a preview:
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Mizuumi Anime Club
Agenda for August 28, 2008
I. Introduction
II. Club History
III. Future Plans & Events
a. JAS-SA Matsuri, Central Library. Saturday, October 18, 2008
b. Oni-Con, Houston. Friday - Sunday, November 21-23, 2008
c. Mizuumi-Con, OLLU Campus. Saturday, March 21, 2009
IV. State of the Club
V. Formation of Constitution and By-laws Committee
VI. Entertaining Interlude (anime on the big screen)
VII. Announcement of committee membership voting results
VIII. Adjournment
a. Next meeting Thursday, September 11. Location TBA.
You may send suggestions and requests to the Constitution and By-laws Committee via the club email account: mizuumi@lake.ollusa.edu.
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Once the Constitution and By-laws Committee has completed its work, and the new constitution and by-laws are approved, we will use the election procedure contained therein to conduct an election that is open and fair to all involved. I hope that can happen sometime in September, but I won't rush the work of the committee; we'll wait until things are in order to have an election.
I look forward to seeing everyone at the meeting!
-Darrell
Club Advisor
I'm looking forward to a great year this year, with some new ideas and a new direction for the club. We had a good Club Rush today, handing out AP comics to those who signed up for the mailing list and, of course, we had plenty of Lucky Candies to go around.
Members Jose Luis De La Cruz and Christopher Pagonis
We had 21 students sign up for the mailing list, and I'll be adding them tonight.
Tomorrow, August 28, 2008, we'll have our first meeting of the semester. This will be mostly a "business" meeting to start the work I talked about in my previous entry. The meeting will be at 5:30 pm in the Providence Hall Blue Room. All members of the OLLU community are welcome to attend. Printed agendas will be distributed, but here is a preview:
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Mizuumi Anime Club
Agenda for August 28, 2008
I. Introduction
II. Club History
III. Future Plans & Events
a. JAS-SA Matsuri, Central Library. Saturday, October 18, 2008
b. Oni-Con, Houston. Friday - Sunday, November 21-23, 2008
c. Mizuumi-Con, OLLU Campus. Saturday, March 21, 2009
IV. State of the Club
V. Formation of Constitution and By-laws Committee
VI. Entertaining Interlude (anime on the big screen)
VII. Announcement of committee membership voting results
VIII. Adjournment
a. Next meeting Thursday, September 11. Location TBA.
You may send suggestions and requests to the Constitution and By-laws Committee via the club email account: mizuumi@lake.ollusa.edu.
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Once the Constitution and By-laws Committee has completed its work, and the new constitution and by-laws are approved, we will use the election procedure contained therein to conduct an election that is open and fair to all involved. I hope that can happen sometime in September, but I won't rush the work of the committee; we'll wait until things are in order to have an election.
I look forward to seeing everyone at the meeting!
-Darrell
Club Advisor
Friday, August 01, 2008
Mizuumi Restructuring
Members:
After a lengthy consultation with Campus Activities yesterday afternoon, it seems that there’s an urgent need to lay out a new roadmap for the future of the Mizuumi Anime Club. The term of the current president has ended and I thank him for his work to present new anime to our members that they could not have seen on American broadcast TV. Elections for new officers will not be held today as planned. Instead, we will begin a restructuring process that may take several months to complete.
It will be a long process to rebuild the club, but in the end, Mizuumi should have a good foundation upon which to build a strong and prosperous future. The process will have room for the input of all interested parties, and will be thoroughly chronicled on our website at http://mizuumi.org/.
One order of business will be to initiate a constitutional review. The review will be conducted by a committee selected by all present at the first meeting of the semester. These individuals, working together and with my assistance, will review all prior copies of the club’s constitution that have been filed with Campus Activities. The committee may choose to include portions of those constitutions, or they may choose to write a new constitution. Reviewing the constitutions of Anime clubs at other universities similar to OLLU will be very important to the process as well. Once the committee has crafted a constitution that thoroughly details the operations of the club, that constitution shall be presented to the members at a meeting and will be voted upon. If the club members present at that meeting ratify the constitution, it will then go into effect. If ratification doesn’t occur, the draft constitution will go back to the committee with any requested modifications from the membership, and the process will repeat until ratification occurs.
Once the new constitution is approved, we will use the election procedure contained therein to conduct an election that is open and fair to all involved. Unfortunately, this means that we likely won’t have elected officers until September, but we’ll just have to do the best we can until then.
For now, our immediate concern should be preparing for Club Rush. I’d like to know who might be interested in helping to staff the table for Club Rush. As I’m sure most of you remember, we typically have a table with anime and manga on display and we give away our trademark lucky candies. That event is on Wednesday August 27th, from 11:30-1:30. Club Rush is our best opportunity of the year to recruit new members, and we’ll need a few people to spend time at the table talking to new students.
We all share the same goal of a strong and prosperous club. I look forward to your input. Please comment on the website, or contact me via the club email account, mizuumi@lake.ollusa.edu.
Darrell Hoberer, MCSE
Mizuumi Anime Club Advisor
After a lengthy consultation with Campus Activities yesterday afternoon, it seems that there’s an urgent need to lay out a new roadmap for the future of the Mizuumi Anime Club. The term of the current president has ended and I thank him for his work to present new anime to our members that they could not have seen on American broadcast TV. Elections for new officers will not be held today as planned. Instead, we will begin a restructuring process that may take several months to complete.
It will be a long process to rebuild the club, but in the end, Mizuumi should have a good foundation upon which to build a strong and prosperous future. The process will have room for the input of all interested parties, and will be thoroughly chronicled on our website at http://mizuumi.org/.
One order of business will be to initiate a constitutional review. The review will be conducted by a committee selected by all present at the first meeting of the semester. These individuals, working together and with my assistance, will review all prior copies of the club’s constitution that have been filed with Campus Activities. The committee may choose to include portions of those constitutions, or they may choose to write a new constitution. Reviewing the constitutions of Anime clubs at other universities similar to OLLU will be very important to the process as well. Once the committee has crafted a constitution that thoroughly details the operations of the club, that constitution shall be presented to the members at a meeting and will be voted upon. If the club members present at that meeting ratify the constitution, it will then go into effect. If ratification doesn’t occur, the draft constitution will go back to the committee with any requested modifications from the membership, and the process will repeat until ratification occurs.
Once the new constitution is approved, we will use the election procedure contained therein to conduct an election that is open and fair to all involved. Unfortunately, this means that we likely won’t have elected officers until September, but we’ll just have to do the best we can until then.
For now, our immediate concern should be preparing for Club Rush. I’d like to know who might be interested in helping to staff the table for Club Rush. As I’m sure most of you remember, we typically have a table with anime and manga on display and we give away our trademark lucky candies. That event is on Wednesday August 27th, from 11:30-1:30. Club Rush is our best opportunity of the year to recruit new members, and we’ll need a few people to spend time at the table talking to new students.
We all share the same goal of a strong and prosperous club. I look forward to your input. Please comment on the website, or contact me via the club email account, mizuumi@lake.ollusa.edu.
Darrell Hoberer, MCSE
Mizuumi Anime Club Advisor
Friday, January 25, 2008
Hello 2008
Welcome, welcome, members and friends! It's been a long time since we've updated our site, but we're back and ready to start off the semester.
We have lots of good things coming up, and we hope you'll join us! The first meeting of the semester is tonight (Friday January 25, 2008). President JoseLuis De La Cruz has announced to the members mailing list that we'll be watching three episodes each meeting of two different anime series this semester - that's 6 action-packed episodes per meeting, plus our usual announcements and other club business before the show starts. Meeting normally run from 5:15 to 8pm every Friday in the Sueltenfuss Library, room 119. The campus map (PDF) shows you where to find the library, which is building 12. The actual building closes at 6pm, so if you are arriving after that, you have to enter near the rear of the building by the "night study" room.
Hope to see you there!
Arigato!
-Darrell
Jose Luis De La Cruz
President
Aleia
SGA Representative
Darrell Hoberer
Club Advisor, Driver, Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
We have lots of good things coming up, and we hope you'll join us! The first meeting of the semester is tonight (Friday January 25, 2008). President JoseLuis De La Cruz has announced to the members mailing list that we'll be watching three episodes each meeting of two different anime series this semester - that's 6 action-packed episodes per meeting, plus our usual announcements and other club business before the show starts. Meeting normally run from 5:15 to 8pm every Friday in the Sueltenfuss Library, room 119. The campus map (PDF) shows you where to find the library, which is building 12. The actual building closes at 6pm, so if you are arriving after that, you have to enter near the rear of the building by the "night study" room.
Hope to see you there!
Arigato!
-Darrell
Jose Luis De La Cruz
President
Aleia
SGA Representative
Darrell Hoberer
Club Advisor, Driver, Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
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