[Ansteorra] Student chapter?

[Sher M]

At SHSU Ravens Guild is now official.  It is a long process to get a 
college/university to recognize a new group.  Check with Student Affairs (or 
something similar) and see what the process is for starting a group.  It 
will vary from school to school.  There will also be legal ramifications, 
such as at SHSU I believe they are not allowed to have bows or crossbows on 
campus.  So most of Ravens Guild is made of Rapier Fighters.

Lady Runa of The Thundering Herd
Ravens Fort
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From: "Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace" <sirlyonel at hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:15 AM
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Student chapter?

>
> Salut cozyns,
>
> In the past twenty years, I've seen many attempts to start a College (an 
> SCA branch organized within the students and faculty of a college or 
> university). I started one, myself, at Idaho State University several 
> years ago. It didn't survive two years. In fact, it only lasted as an 
> "official" group (after recognition) for a semester. Currently, as far as 
> I can tell, Ansteorra has only one incipient College (Three Bridges at UT 
> Arlington). I know that, within Bryn Gwlad, Laszlo was trying to get a 
> group started at UT Austin, but I don't know if it ever took off. Earlier 
> attempts there did not fare well.
>
> I believe it's possible to get a College going--especially in an area like 
> Sequin where the distance to the nearest shire or barony is great enough 
> to be difficult for students.
>
> If you want to start on such a project, I'd say do the following:
>
> (1) Familiarize yourself with Kingdom Law (available at Ansteorra.org)
>
> (2) Make firends with the neighboring seneschals (Ffynnon Gath, Bryn 
> Gwlad, and Bjornsborg)
>
> (3) Get to know the regional and kingdom seneschals
>
> (4) Start thinking about how you'll go about recruiting, where you would 
> hold populace meetings, and where you would hold fighter practice. In my 
> experience, no college survives without a strong martial base. No fighter 
> practices usually means eventual death for the group.
>
> (5) Find at least one and preferably two more students who feel as 
> strongly about this as you. If you try to be the sole source of energy 
> behind the group, it will die any time you're unavailable.
>
> (6) Know what your college requires from a student 
> organization/club/society.
>
> (7) Talk with Laszlo about his experiences, they're more recent than my 
> own.
>
>
> I really don't want to scare anyone away from the attempt, but if you're 
> going to do this, you should be aware of the obstacles. Essentially, the 
> problems are
>
> (1) Your populace is temporary. Most students are there for just four 
> years. Four years goes by pretty fast. Every year, populace members will 
> simply disappear. This is especially hurtful when they're active members.
>
> (2) Your populace is concentrating on something else. Students really 
> don't have that much spare time, and that tends to disappear around term 
> paper and exam times.
>
> (3) Large chunks of your population disappear in the summer. The structure 
> of a College is supposed to allow for that, but people who are away for 
> three months occasionally come back with other interests.
>
> (4) Your populace can't afford a lot of travel. That means they don't 
> attend a lot of events outside of your group.
>
> (5) Colleges often have weird little rules that makes it difficult or even 
> impossible to hold events on campus. Many, for example, will give an SCA 
> College a space to use for fighter practice, but anyone practicing there 
> has to be a student or staff. Some schools won't allow fighter practices 
> (safety concerns, lawsuit concerns).
>
>
> Bon chance, cozyn.
> En Lyonel
> _________________________________
>
> Impedimentum via est (The obstacle is the path)> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 
> 10:36:21 -0600> From: giertrud at gmail.com> To: 
> ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> Subject: [Ansteorra] Student chapter?> > I 
> plan on attending Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, TX. The meetings> 
> of the local shire are,> unfortunately, rather far away.> > I was doing 
> some reading and noted some "student chapters" are around.> > Several of 
> the students there DO attend the Renaissance Fair and I am sure> there 
> would be> some interest in the group.> > Does anyone know about who I 
> would contact or such about starting such a> group when> I arrive?> > 
> YIS,> > Giertrud Gyldenstierne> > God is my lyght and saluation, whom then 
> shall I feare? God is the strength> of my life, of whom then shall I be 
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