How many members can we sustain?

[Machine]

I know we're a big organization with a hella big office and sustained membership, but just how many people can we sustain? 100? 200? There must eventually be a point where we'll reach critical mass and either need more space or need to split up - or something.

[Goggles]

Honestly, I think that we could potentially sustain 100 members. Here's the issue: Though we push for members to be active and to participate in our activities, if all of the people who visited the office with any semblance of regularity wished to visit our meetings as well, we'd have no room whatsoever. It's a strange paradox: Though we want to grow, and we want to have more active members, if we do, it might in fact make the organization inoperable as the office would be perpetually a fire hazard, and thus we'd have to keep people out of the office, something that would cause membership to fall off. I find it mildly entertaining, though none of that would be a problem if Tom would have been able to get us the gigantic waste of space that is the tutoring place in the Union.

[AquaFox]

Let's try and look at organizations that have a lot of active membership. With fraternaties it's easy because of frathouses and big events (we have the latter). How do the big pharmacy student organizations do it?

[Goggles]

The pharmacy organizations have meetings every once in a while that are effectively seminars. Quite a different atmosphere from that of one of our meetings/ normal hang-out sessions. We're fairly unique in our structure.

[thenetwrqnatse]

I think BASH should claim the Student Union bar room (where Monster BASH is held) then section it off for the various sub divisions of BASH (ie: Board/Card games, pencil/paper D&D related, Video Games, etc).

[cheme.chris]

I'm pretty sure that if Tom would have allowed us to claim Rocky's Attic, we already would have.  It would keep us away from people and thus the conversations in the office would be kept there and not drift to say, Starbucks.   

[AquaFox]

I think Max said this to me earlier. Apparently, Rocky's Attic needs some maintenance. The restroom isn't disabled friendly. And some other things.. I forget.

[Inquisitor Dan]

I think Max said this to me earlier. Apparently, Rocky's Attic needs some maintenance. The restroom isn't disabled friendly. And some other things.. I forget.

The lighting is completely inadequate for regular gaming. If we moved there, we'd ironically enough still be playing board games in other rooms.

The present room isn't great, but it's probably our best option in the SU.

[Machine]

I really think that Rocky's Attic would be awesome, but there are so many things preventing us from using it.

The kitchen area isn't up to code. The gas lines and water lines are both dangerous; one is open, (though not leaking as there is no gas provided) and the rusty pipes have made the water impotable - not to mention various rotting items found throughout the area.

The windows are great and let you see much of campus when they're not covered. Unfortunately, they are the only source of adequate lighting. Rocky's was a bar, after all, and that means that it has bar lighting.

I completely agree with Dan, as the entire area is completely inadquate when it comes to lighting.

Now, if we could knock down some walls and annex the College Democrat's room - well, now we're talking.

[tgaland]

I think I'm the only person who has never had a problem with the lighting in Rocky's Attic :p. It is true though, short of annexing the Democrats or tutoring, there's really nowhere else to go. And though the rooms by Phonecia's are nice, they're not actually that much bigger than the Bash office right now: they just have less filling them up so they look bigger. Also, that might ruin our working relationship with Phonecia's.

[thenetwrqnatse]

What the Administration should do with Rocky's Attic is revamp it like they did with the Field House (and i was amazed the first time)..... or give it to BASH and let the BASH members take care of it themselves..

[Voodoo]

We wouldn't be able to take care of plumbing and the like by ourselves.


There has to be a way we can get the big ass aquarium though.

[the scy]

BASH has sustained about 120 members in my day. Also, I was trying to talk Tom into letting us have Rocky's Attic back in 2004. It's not up to code.