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AGM, Membership categories, and Halloween

10/21/2014

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This post we have a couple things to discuss: a party (yay!) and how we are going to resolve our SRC issues (doubleyay!).

Membership Categories

As a result of communication between Ray and the SRC (i.e. he asked them what they actually wanted), we have received a clear answer regarding what they would be happy with. Pending confirmation at the AGM, this is what would happen:

Three classes of members would exist. The three classes are as follows:
1) Student Members, with full voting rights, forming no less than 80% of the membership

2) Non-Student Members, with full voting rights, forming no more than 20% of the membership

3) Friends of GUGS, defined as non-student honorary members, with no voting rights.

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The benefit of this is simple: we can register all our non-students as members, giving them cards and whatnot, but fulfill the SRCs criteria by only allowing a certain number of them to possess voting rights. I suspect that most people value their ability to roll dice higher than their ability to vote, so this works well for us by allowing us to have our student cake and eat our (non-)student cake.

Halloween

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Don't forget that this Saturday is our Halloween party! Check out the Facebook page for more details, and prepare yourself for some spooky funtimes!

AGM

The committee hereby gives notice that the AGM will be held on the 4th of November. If you are planning on running for a position, please do!

A blast from the past...

Finally, those who are despairing over the modern society's ability to get itself into trouble might enjoy a look at this letter, written to the then-president in 2001, which reads amazingly closely to the problems that have affected the society in recent years. Not just our generation that has problems!
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Historical Documents Uploaded!

10/16/2014

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A quick post here to inform you all that the minutes for the years 1990-2003 have now been digitised and can be read over on the Documents page. Among other things, they reveal that at one time our society had £1450 in a bank account, that problems between the non-students and students is at least a decade old, and that there is a long tradition of integrating bad jokes into the minutes.

Let us know if there is anything else that you would like to see: membership lists have also been digitised, but they are not suitable for sharing on the internet openly, even though they contain a great deal of interesting information about membership numbers and games played over the years.
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Geeks go to Laser Planet!

10/15/2014

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This Friday GUGS is teaming up with the rest of the blessed quadrangle of Geekdom – GUMAF, PAUSE and IO – to shoot and drink. In that order! We are heading to Laser Planet, directions for which you can find through the map widget below or the company's website found here, in order to start the carnage at 6pm this Friday the 17th. Long may it live in memory as the day on which GUGS achieved supremacy over all other geeks, nerds and dorks! Then we will either celebrate our win or commiserate our loss by drinking and dancing at the QMU’s Friday Night Magic event. Don’t miss out on what should be an awesome event!
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Wargames and Crafts Fun Day!

10/11/2014

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Today is our Wargames and Crafts day, held in the QMU as normal! There will people knitting, people painting, and generally a happy air of industry and nerdity. Sounds great, right? So why not come along and show us your talents? The QMU's Cafe 22 will be open as normal, so you can get yourself something to chow and chew at the same time.
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SRC AFFiliation, Membership Cards and Games!

10/6/2014

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There are a few vaguely exciting things to pass along this week. Read on for vaguely exciting information!

Start of the Campaigns!

This Tuesday the 7th our year-long RPG campaigns will be starting again, which is a cause for great excitement among men, women and beasts. We hope to see you rolling those 4d6 drop lowest (or equivalent) as we begin our journeys into the magical realm of wonder known as the Food Factory. 

Don't forget to keep an eye out on the game signup sheets, and to let us know how it goes! The committee is keen to hear stories of derring do, feats of bravery, and accounts of terrible stupidity, as appropriate for each campaign. 

Membership Cards

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I've put an order in for 250 business cards to be delivered to my very door by Vistaprint. These should arrive by next Monday, meaning that we can hopefully be dishing these out on Tuesday the 14th. A laminator will be on hand for extra professional looks and deviant sexual acts, as required. 

SRC Affiliation

Our illustrious president has attained for us the lofty heights of SRC affiliation, which means that we won't be disbanded and hounded into the streets like dogs. So that is good. We still need a long-term solution to our problem with the SRC, which as previously noted will be a feature of the upcoming AGM. Said AGM will also be your opportunity to stand for a committee position, in order to help out the society with all sorts of cool and exciting tasks!*
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* Tasks will not be exciting, and will only be cool during the winter months. 

Until next time folks!
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