Re: How are your teams run?

ketchup2727 <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Wed, 07 May 2003 13:42:50 -0000

> What I need to know is, how do some of your teams run?  Here at 

> Athens, the rules say that we "can't" go to a tournament without a 

> sponsor with us, but I've noticed that most teams do not have a 

> faculty member accompany them... 

Hi Lee,

It's odd that your school requires you to have a sponsor go along on 
all of your trips with you... is that for all trips, or just if you're 
in a university vehicle, or just if it's out of state, or ... ?

Also, does your sponsor have to be a faculty member?  Our advisor at 
Iowa State is staff, not faculty, and that's no problem here.  It 
might be easier to try that.

> I'm trying to convince the administration to allow me to run the 

> team officially. I've been running it all year, but our sponsor had 

> to sign all of the out-of-state travel paperwork, etc.  Anyway, I'm 

> trying to reduce the role of an official sponsor to a minimum, and 

> it would help me greatly to hear how some other teams 

> infrastructures are set up.  IE - alot of teams post the results of 

> officer elections on the board.  What exactly are your roles?  And 

> do you have an official faculty sponsor who works with you?  

Basically-- we decide what we want to do.  If we want to go to a 
tournament, the interested players do the work (reserve the hotel 
rooms, find a driver, and such).  The club officers oversee this to a 
point, especially early in the year and for larger tournaments.  The 
President and Treasurer need to sign vouchers (as does our advisor, 
who frankly doesn't have to do much else) to reimburse for expenses, 
and that's about all.

All of the members are responsible for doing fund raising.  We hosted 
four tournaments this past year (two collegiate, one high school, one 
intramural), and people who wanted the benefit of that club money 
helped out with tournament organization, question writing, and 
moderating/scorekeeping.  That money, then, paid our way to 
tournaments.

What might be the best source of information for you is talking to 
other student organizations at your school, and seeing how they manage 
to jump through all of the administration's hoops.  They might have 
the best insights for you.

> Any input on this would be greatly appreciated.  I hope I can 

> navigate through this bureaucratic minefield and keep our little 

> team alive, but things aren't looking too good.  Thanks.

I certainly hope this isn't the end for your team... if I can give you 
any more information or help you out, just drop me a line.

Sincerely,

-Michael Falk, Historian/Webmaster/Assistant Buzzer Lackey, Iowa State 
University Academic Quiz Club

mjf27 at iastate dot edu