<p>I don’t really think I can start a club, because I’m too busy with work and college, but if I really really want to, then maybe.</p>
<p>The club I maybe want to start at my college is an aviation club consisting of pilots and aviation enthusiasts. The problem is that I’m narrow-minded. I mainly like light sport aviation and general aviation. Commercial aviation and military aviation also interests a little bit, but I’m mainly not interested in them too much, especially not military aviation. I also love certain types of aircraft, mainly airplanes. But I don’t like helicopters.</p>
<p>So, my question is that do I have to be open-minded to start an aviation club? Like do I have to love everything about aviation and not just certain things?</p>
<p>If you’re going to call it an “aviation club” then you should probably be open minded to all forms of aviation. </p>
<p>If you’re going to call it a “light sport an general aviation, some commercial and military aviation (but not really) and airplanes but not helicopters” club then you can focus on that :).</p>
<p>Depending on the size of your college, you may have to be open-minded because you might not be able to find enough people who are interested in aviation in general, let alone enough people who are interested in the kind of aviation you like.</p>
<p>And as romanigypsyeyes said, if you do decide to have a narrow focus, you should make sure the club title reflects that. I have personal experience with being VERY excited about a club, only to be disappointed because the name of the club was misleading. So don’t get people’s hopes up if the club isn’t everything the name implies.</p>
<p>Also, you could start off being open-minded just to get as many people as you can to join the club, and in following years, if there’s enough interest, you could let it break off into clubs with a narrower focus.</p>
<p>I have successfully started two clubs. You don’t technically have to be open minded, but if you are not you may find nobody wants to join your club. You can’t be the aviation club fuhrer or nobody is going to want to even be your friend, much less be in a club that you are in charge of. </p>
<p>That said, even if you were open-minded, that doesn’t mean you have to spend a ton of time personally on a particular aspect. One of my clubs, for example, is a student association for students with learning disabilities. I am really only interested in developing programs to extend the services offered by the disabilities office and university-wide educational programs. But we also have to do fund raisers, social events, and all sorts of other crap I don’t give a **** about. I delegated the parts I don’t care about to other people who do so I don’t have to exert myself too much on those things (because I simply do not have time to work on eight different things that don’t even matter to me), I just have to show up and be supportive and be a leader when its required of me. And I get to concentrate the bulk of my efforts on arranging programs and educational events. That is where my interest and skills are, and for other people it’s going to be something different that I am less interested or skilled in, and delegating accordingly is good for the efficiency of the club. </p>
<p>As leader of the club I do have to keep everyone united and on the same page, but I don’t have to actually put very much time into the parts I don’t care about as long as I am acting professionally and making sure that the club is giving fair representation to the interests that matter to the membership. Had the club solely been focused on my interests, we wouldn’t have had enough members to get recognized by the university. So the way I did things, everybody wins. So there is a middle ground here. You don’t have to love all types of aviation to still painlessly include it in your club. You can say, “well, helicopters aren’t something I have personally put a lot of time into, but if you like helicopters you can head the helicopter committee.”</p>