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