Anyone else sick of this?

Millancad
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:37:10 +0000

We do have multiple community service clubs, but I think they’re legit. We have Community Action Team, which is the oldest one. We have Soteni, and the girl who started that worked with Soteni for two years and went to Africa with the organization, so it’s very real. We have Amnesty International. I don’t know what they do. We have Boo Radley, but that club at least originally didn’t help the community so much, it just randomly gave out candy to make people happy. It’s a very silly club. I think we have an AIDs club. We have a GLBTQ & Friends club that usually does AIDs stuff.

In a lot of clubs, leaders are chosen either by the teacher sponsor (if its a club like culinary or French of Judaism where it doesn’t really affect your life) or picked by the former president. Usually, group members have to nominate people to be picked. And it’s a sort of thing where you can only nominate one person, you submit the nomination in writing. Since you have to put work into it, it usually doesn’t turn into a popularity contest. There are no secretary or historian positions beneath leader or anything, so leaders are more like the people who delegate.

Some clubs might die out when their leaders graduate. Possibly Soteni, since it could get absorbed since no one else is really passionate about it and most of the members are graduating this year. Community Action Team was revived by one girl but she picked good leaders and it’s still surviving 2 years after she left for Harvard. Community service was basically her life though.