[Lugstuff] Regarding a new Meeting Place.

[Patrick Roanhouse]

Well they said the gateway for entry to the general public of the  
school would not be able to join in on such a group. The  
administration are bunch of closed minded mouth breathers. Its what  
happens when you have a rather conservative minded group of people in  
charge. They have five different christian organizations who are  
allowed to used state provided funds for club organizations yet when  
they tried to put in the student muslim association you don't even  
want to hear the stories I heard from friends who tried to start that.  
Anyway AACC is what it is, Another Appalling Community College. What  
few amazing teachers they have there they pigeon hole and make it  
diffcult to have anything new. Ask Prof. Seabrook his story about  
trying to get his python class. I'm glad I matriculated to a big kids  
school.


On Sep 22, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Thomas Gallen wrote:

> This place is never "full" so to speak. It's a waste really. So many
> empty classrooms and nothing to do with them. At least, nothing we're
> allowed to do with them. I agree that it's a waste of taxpayers  
> money to
> boast such "high tech" facilities then leave them to gather dust.
>
> I also meant to ask what happened when you tried to start a Linux
> Users Group here at the college. Were you denied? If so, were you  
> given
> a reason? I'd love to hear why they wouldn't let you create such a  
> great
> club when they allow some other many times more pointless clubs to
> exist.
>
> Thomas
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 04:38:14PM -0400, Patrick Roanhouse wrote:
>>
>> You would think that being it is a community college and funded by  
>> tax
>> payers that they would fully open it to the use of the community at  
>> large
>> for use when not full. For town meetings or other organizations. They
>> really should pass a a state bill to allow community college to be  
>> used
>> when public locations are not available to public community  
>> organizations.
>>
>>
>> On Sep 22, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Thomas Gallen wrote:
>>> I've confirmed this with a coworker, however, he gave me the contact
>>> information of the group that deals with reservations, so I'm  
>>> going to
>>> try contacting them directly.
>>>
>>> I also agree about the lack of community halls. This annoys the  
>>> shite
>>> out of me since there really isn't anywhere that you can gather for
>>> larger events such as uninterrupted public speaking and hardware/ 
>>> software
>>> demonstration.
>>>
>>> Looking at the schedule, the amount of free space available here is
>>> ridiculous and a huge waste of space and resources so I'll see if I
>>> can't find some way to get an area. The current bookstore/coffee  
>>> shop
>>> meetings just don't seem like they would scale too well in the  
>>> future.
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:33:50PM -0400, Patrick Roanhouse wrote:
>>>> I am a former student of AACC and also the program manager for  
>>>> Annapolis
>>>> Apple Slice Mac Users Group as well. We looked into getting one  
>>>> of the
>>>> auditoriums in CALT since the Severna Park library is closed now on
>>>> sundays. You have to book at least two months in advance as well  
>>>> as pay a
>>>> 200 dollar fee since it not a school club or organization. I also  
>>>> had
>>>> tried
>>>> to start a Linux User Group at the school but was only able to  
>>>> start a
>>>> Network Security Club before I matriculated schools. I think it  
>>>> is kind
>>>> of
>>>> sad for the Annapolis Maryland area that we don't have the same  
>>>> kind of
>>>> community halls like Virginia counties have. Not only for  
>>>> community club
>>>> organizations but also for the fact you can't be active and come  
>>>> to town
>>>> government meetings on the scale of inclusion like they do say in  
>>>> Fairfax
>>>> in VA with their huge community meeting hall.