O.O MUST WIN Sushi!!!!!!

Dear UC Merced Club President and Advisor,

Allow me to introduce myself; as a new career counselor, I was excited to see the club and organization involvement by students at the UC Merced campus. Thus for the upcoming semester, Career Services would like to invite the clubs and organizations to a challenge. Career Services offers students many services and resources for career success and as a way to introduce your members to our services we have created a spring 2008 club challenge.
The club challenge will consist of a set of challenges relating to career planning. The first ten clubs to sign-up ten members each will be able to participate in the challenge. Our staff will keep tally sheets as the challenges are completed. Each team will be allowed a sub-list of two members as a back-up for absentee members or in case of emergencies. The set of challenges must be completed by each team member. Each challenge will be assessed points depending on the difficulty of the task (i.e. creating a resume vs. attending the Internship Fair).

Rules, details and the list of challenges will be posted by January 4, 2008. An email reminder will be issued on Jan. 21, 2008. Sign-ups will be accepted the week of Jan. 28-Feb. 1, 2008. Club members will be able to sign-up in the Career Services Center and at a table in OSL during the week of January 28th, 2008. The challenge will begin on February 4 and end on March 21, 2008 at midnight. During spring recess, scores will be tallied and we’ll award a grand prize to the highest scoring team. In the event of a tie, a tie-breaker will be presented. So, what is the incentive to tackle this challenge?

Grand Prize: A sushi-making party!

The winning team will be awarded a private sushi-making party hosted by Dining during an evening in the week of March 31st, 2008. The club advisor will be invited to attend. Master Chef, Mitch Vanagten, will teach sushi-making to the winning team. Other Japanese side dishes and non-alcoholic beverages will be served. Master Chef Mitch will also judge the “best-rolled sushi” and prizes will be awarded. It will be a memorable evening and a lot of fun!
In addition to the grand prize, the Office of Student Life will award monetary prizes ($200, $125, $75) for first through third places that your club may use for events. It just doesn’t get any better!

I invite your club to take up this challenge not only for the competition but for the valuable resources Career Services has to offer your members’ career success. Thank you for considering this challenge. Any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at (209) 228-4587 or email at http://us.f526.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ljuergenson@ucmerced.edu.


Sincerely,

Lezly Juergenson, Career Counselor

1st Anime Club Screening Conclusion

Hey everyone! Yesterday went pretty smooth despite weird technical issues we managed to finish early XD. To those who couldn't make it try to watch The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya before the next meeting which will be the following thursday when we get back. I'll message everyone again to that meeting.

For Fandubbing Event I'll try to make sure I'm familiar with the programs needed during Christmas vacation, and people who want to do the Hare Hare Yukai dance familarize yourself with the dance, you can find it on youtube. We will start practice in January.
Next meeting we will discuss the following

Fandubbing Topics:
1. Interspace Battle between different animes with spaceships.
(Melancholy vs Captain Harlock vs Crest of the Stars etc....)
2. All the black cats in anime (sailor moon, Darker than Black, Pita Ten etc...)
3. Stop Male Abuse (covering all animes were the main character gets beat up by girls)
4. Killer toys from China (covering animes with dolls, Rozen maiden, Naruto, Bleach etc...)
5. Cute but deadly (covering animes with cute evil things...)

Any suggestions are welcome! Have a cool winter vacation! Good Luck on Finals!

1st Anime Club Screening Final Details

The date is this Saturday the 8th. The time is 4:00pm-10:45pm. You're free to come in earlier, We will be setting up at 3:30pm. The club isn't going to provide food. However, you can bring your own food and share food at the event just makes sure it doesn't get messy, we are responsible for any mess we make in the california room.

I'll have around 20 flyers basically copying the showlist I posted on the club website soabrigade.blogspot.com so feel free to take any whenyou come in.

We aren't allowed to bring anyone except club members so unless your 100% that the person is going to join the club don't bring more people. I'll have a sign insheet so we can keep track of people who attend. If you plan on attending late make sure to sign in.

The doors should be open but I plan on locking them around 5:00pm so random people can't comein and disrupt the screening so if your coming later than 5:00pm makesure to knock.

Anime Screening Schedule

Anime Screening (January or 8th Saturday)

Planned Showlist: 3 comedies, 1 dramas, 3 action

Time/Title
4:00pm Shakugan no Shana 1-2
4:55pm Genkshiken 1-2
5:50pm Nodame Cantabile 1-2
6:45pm Le Chevalier D'eon 1-2
7:40pm The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 1-2
8:35pm Ergo Proxy 1-2
9:30pm Darker Than Black 1-2

10:25pm Discussion/Clean up

Update on the Last Anime Meeting

Just refreshing on what was discussed last meeting.This is the website for mangas, http://www.onemanga.com/

There won't be a meeting next week, however I looked at the schedule for classes and the semister ends on the 10th of Monday which is next next monday.
Anyway I'll ask if it's possible to do the screening on 8th Saturday, I'll message you all for confirmation who can go or not if we can do it on Saturday.

Just a reminder to give me the time of your late night classes 8:00-10:00pm for next semister.

For a group cosplay I'm thinking
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya


would be best because it's a uniform. The other option is Bleach. Any further suggestions are welcome.We are keeping the meeting times every other week.

For the frequency of Anime Screening I would like to do it at least once a month and twice a month at the most.

Next meeting we need to discuss what manga we are going to discuss. I recommend reading up on Naruto at least because that manga is getting really good. I didn't mention this last time but you can youtube mangas. They basically play music and flip the pages for you. And no youtube is not illegal...yet...

We can enter a contest for best AMV at the upcoming anime conventions but we need to work fast! haha anyway we will decide next meeting so think hard over the break on a AMV that a lot of people know that would be funny to parody.

We need to decide on the anime series we want to marathon. Of course if it's a 24 series or 26+ episode series we may want to do a all day thing on saturday. Next meeting we need to vote on that.

The last point we need to discuss is how to get more people interested in anime. Maybe discuss how we got interested in anime find some event that matches. Alright thats it for now I'll email the following message to everyone. Have a good winter vacation!

Meeting on Thursday 29th

Our next meeting will be at 8:00pm in the KL Library on Thursday the 29th. I'll be discussing the anime screening that we will be doing later in January & about what stuff you guys want to watch in the California room.

If possible please ready a list of anime's you've seen so we can go on to things people haven't seen and open discussion threads.

We are starting practice for the Hara Hara Yukai Dance in January after I memorize it completely. But feel free to practice in your free time if you want to XD. Thats it for now!

2nd SOA Meeting XD

2nd SOA Brigade Meeting will be on thursday the 15th at 8:00pm in the Den XD sorry for a bit of a late notice I'll send emails too!

SOA Brigade First Meeting

The first meeting will be in room 217 in the Library 2nd floor at 8:00pm this coming thursday.

btw...checking if the website is going to hold up =D