Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Fancy Person's Club: DENIED

So my friends and I were trying to create a club here at NYU. We get $1000 a semester to do whatever we want with it and we figured we could take that money and spend it on nice food for ourselves. That way we'd have more money for drinking and eat nice dinners at expensive restaurants, courtesy of NYU.

We decided to create a Fancy Person's club, where we would all have to dress in fancy clothing and eat fancy dinners. We wrote up a whole charter and club structure in order to petition to the school's activities board. We were certain that it should have made it; after all, NYU has a cookies club. All they do is eat cookies all the time so we figured we had a pretty good shot. Unfortunately, we were met with this stinging reply from NYU:

Dear Founding Members,

On behalf of the Student Activities Board, I regret to inform you that your application to be a New Club in Development has been denied. The board had the following concerns:

1) The programming and goals of the club are questioned by the board because they may be offensive to the NYU community at large.
2) There is no real benefit and/or contribution to the NYU community through the fancy dress-up or normal dressing and interaction during club events as has been suggested. There is no need for All-Square status if people seek to dress up. This can be done without Kimmel space and an official club name.
3) Screening movies is not allowed for the most part because most groups that do seek to do film screenings, don't obtain copyrights. Sincerely, Student Activities Board


I can't help but think this is somehow race-related.

-Emoinacloset

6 COMMENTS:

sarahyangg said...

hahhaah this is hilarious...
that sucks though, cause like, that cookies club gets funded.

Life After ARC said...

I do not understand this.
Why is it offensive?

-muffinman

Life After ARC said...

fancy person's club.

you are ridiculous. lol

-robocop

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