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NSCS at CSUF is an honor society inviting high

achieving freshmen and sophmores. Members must

have a GPA of 3.4 or above and rank in the top 20 percent of their class.

Next MeetingNov. 18th at noon in Alverado A/B TSU

Will be excepting wrapped gifts for

Opertation Christmas Child, and clothing/

canned food for Homelessness week.

Facebook Fan Pagewww.facebook.com/nscs.csuf

Rosa Beleriquefullerton2010@csu.fullerton.edu

Inter-Tribal Council prepares traditional dance

The Inter-Tribal Student Council will host their “Native Celebration” event today in the Quad from 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.

“We are showing some of the tra-ditions that we still have by having

By Jamie iglesiasDaily Titan Staff Writer

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dancing and ... a little taste of what Native Americans eat,” said Eddie Nunez, 25, a business major and marketing director for the club.

Some of the performers include traditional, jingle and fancy shawl dancers.

“We are going to have a tradi-tional dancer who is going to have all traditional regalia on, which will

have some feathers and eagle claws depending on what kind of regalia they (wear),” Nunez said.

The jingle dancer will have an outfit covered with small bells so students can hear the different bells ringing when she dances.

The fancy shawl dancer will be dancing with a colorful shawl and will portray something beautiful found in nature, such as a butterfly, Nunez said.

Fry bread, a traditional Na-tive American food that resembles funnel cake, will be offered at the event.

It is made from flour, baking soda and water. Once the fry bread is done, it will be topped with pow-dered sugar and honey.

“Hopefully the smell will carry throughout campus and everyone will smell it and will want to come eat fry bread,” said Anna Tiger, 20, a kinesiology major and club presi-dent.

Music preformed at traditional Pow-Wow events will be played. Nunez described the music as not having a specific style. Instead, it can be interpreted through personal experience.

“There’s drumming, the rattle and the hand drum. I can’t really explain the music because it is more like an experience when you go and

you hear it firsthand,” Nunez said.This event is a fundraiser to gath-

er money for a Pow-Wow ITSC is having in March 2010.

“This month we are trying to do an activity every week because it is Native American Heritage Month. We are going to start it off with the event (today),” Nunez said.

Aside from celebrating Native American Heritage Month, ITSC wants to draw attention to the fact that there is a Native American club on campus.

“We want to let everyone know that we exist because there are some people that do not know that Na-tive Americans exist (on campus),” said Brittney Arellano, 19, a biology major and club member. The event is also intended to expose students to authentic Native American cul-ture, Arellano said.

The ITSC was initiated in 1971, according to its Web site. It is one of the oldest clubs on campus.

ITSC’s future plans include a film screening, a basket weaving event in December and their Pow-Wow in March.

The Inter-Tribal Student Council is one of the oldest clubs at Cal State Fullerton. According to their Web site, the club has been active since 1971 when seven native students founded it to promote awareness of their culture and support each other in their educational goals.

The club often attends special events where they dress in regalia as pictured. The council will host their “Native Celebration” event today in the Quad from 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. They will have an array of traditional dancing. Performers will include traditional, jingle and fancy shawl dancers.

They will also be making fry bread, a traditional Native American food that resembles funnel cake.

PHOTO COURTesy Of iNTeR-TRiBal sTUDeNT COUNCil

Meetings are held every Tues-day at 4 p.m. in McCarthy Hall Room 104-C.

For more information about the Inter-Tribal Student Council, visit: CsufInterTribal.com.

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Starting a club at Cal State Ful-lerton can be a bit frustrating.

In high school, all I had to do was talk to our administration, find a teacher and meet once a week at lunch in their classroom. Easy, simple and direct.

When I first arrived at CSUF in 2004, I felt like getting involved and figured the best way to do it was to find a group that appealed to me.

I wasn’t interested in joining As-sociated Students Inc. or becom-ing a part of Greek life, but I loved snowboarding. Given the fact that I was going to a school with over 30,000 people, I felt like I could at

least find a few students who held the same love for snowboarding as I did.

So I went to the CSUF Web site and began searching for informa-tion on how to start a club.

What I found out was that the CSUF Web site was a bit confusing when you first use it, overwhelm-ing even, drowning me with infor-mation and links.

What I disliked the most though was how complicated the process to create a club is.

I found my way to the “Student Life Programs” section of the site. On it was a document that I had to print and fill out. Once I had accomplished this task I could turn in the paperwork applying for campus recognition of the club.

Unfortunately, I never even got

that far. I didn’t even print out the document when I realized that the plethora of information and peo-ple I had to bring together would be too overbearing for me.

I needed five students total, including one to act as president and one as the treasurer. Finally, I found people who wanted to be involved by starting a MyS-pace group for the club. Over the years, I tried to pull off creating this club. I had dozens of students involved and interested, but our efforts were halted by the next step: finding a faculty adviser on campus, part time or full time, to sponsor the club. That is when I hit the brick wall I could never climb over.

Although I did not exhaust all resources possible to find a faculty

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adviser, I hoofed it for two solid years around campus trying to find someone for a signature and a sponsorship.

Either way, if I were to obtain a faculty adviser, I also had to draft a constitution for the club. I am no Thomas Jefferson, but I felt that would have been fun, so I did it to amuse myself.

I don’t have it saved anymore, but I do re-member the preamble:

“We hereby set forth the foundation for fun with snow, upon which we (the CSUF Snowboard-ing Club) shall shred as many slopes as possible. We here-by subject ourselves to the slopes during the six weeks of winter we have off, and no member shall

deter from this! Mother Nature has dawned upon us a hunger for altitude, speed and snow, and we hereby do solemnly swear to heed

our mother’s call and refuse to ski.”

I wanted to pull this off because I felt like the

university would benefit from having the club. I

had hopes and plans for this club. For

example, we could have o r g a n i z e d

runs to the lo-cal mountains,

and during intersession we could

head up to Mammoth for a week, maybe travel to Colo-

rado or Utah.My best advice to someone try-

ing to start a club is: Don’t deter. If you hit snags while trying to start, stay at it; I didn’t, and look where it got my club.

Titan snowboarder fails to get club off the groundBy Patrick cowles

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So, you want to start a club or organization but aren’t sure how to go about it.

There are so many types of clubs out there already, where does one start? Is your club d e p a r t m e n t a l , sports-oriented or just special inter-est?

Luckily for you, there are several options to get the ball rolling.

The first step is to come up with an idea and then go to the Student Organization Resources Center. Creating a club can be daunting at first but the people at the SORC are there to make things easier.

Jamar Walker, assistant coordina-tor of student life and head of the

sports clubs, has seen applications for new and old clubs pass through his department for the three and a half years he has been in position.

“My advice to students is they have help here,” Walker said. “Sometimes students may think it’s overwhelming; it’s definitely work. We are definitely here as a resource

to help out.”The second

step is simple: find members.

It may seem surprising to some, but to start a club or organi-zation only five initial members are required: one president, one treasurer and

three standard members. “Finding members was one of my

biggest obstacles,” said Arjun Car-doza, a business finance major and president of the Sailing Club. “As-sign them positions in the club; it

How to start, maintain your own campus club or organizationBy Skylar Smith

Daily Titan Staff Writernews@dailytitan.com

makes them want to excel.”The third step is to find an advis-

er. This person can be a professor, a dean or any other faculty member.

If the club is departmental, your adviser must be from that depart-ment. “I would recommend going to a professor you are on good terms with, and if you need advice you can go to them,” said Cardoza.

The fourth step, and possibly the most important one, is to create a constitution for your club/organiza-tion.

Cal State Fullerton has a clear guideline that must be followed in creating a constitution.

The fifth step is to determine the focus of your organization. Is your club going to be cultural such as Afro-Ethnic Student Association or The Rainbow Alliance? Could your club fit into the special interest group? Or do you want to make a simple departmental club aimed at enhancing your own major?

1. Seek Advisement – The first step is to come up with an idea and then go to the

Student Organization Resources Center. Creating a club can be daunting at first but the people at the SORC are there to make things easier.

2. Recruit Members – It may seem surprising to some, but to start a club or organi-

zation only five initial members are required: one president, one treasurer and three standard members.

3. Find an Adviser – This person can be a professor, a dean or any other faculty mem-

ber. If the club is departmental, your adviser must be from that department.

4. Create a Constitution – The fourth step, and possibly the most important one, is to create

a constitution for your club/organization. Cal State Fullerton has a clear guideline that must be followed in creating a constitution.

Start a club in eight steps

The sixth step is the beginning of the tedious stuff: preparing for the online application.

Make sure you have campus e-mails for all five founding members and your adviser, every possible bit of information about your club (i.e. possible acronym, category, col-

lege), possible meeting space information and most importantly your constitution.

The seventh step, the online application, is where most clubs have problems and where

How to start, maintain your own campus club or organization

Start a club in eight steps

most new clubs fail to become approved.

Walker said there are many things that can go wrong.

“That’s where a lot of students get caught up; they sometimes wait till

the last minute,” Walker said.“I wish we could put up a portal

post that says, ‘Don’t wait till the last minute.’ With furloughs and everything as well, sometimes a fac-ulty adviser or staff adviser isn’t on campus and that impacts the whole cycle. Or, they pick a student who’s

not reliable to be one of their mem-bers and they don’t check their stu-dent e-mail.”

The eighth and final step is the most suspenseful one: waiting for approval.

The approval process can take a while, as 250 or more clubs reapply

every year, and the SORC is hoping to have 300 or more clubs by next year.

However, the good news is that most clubs do get approved once all information is submitted on time (the upcoming spring semester’s application period is Jan. 11 – Feb. 19).

Sarah Banning, an animation major and current president of the Pencil Mileage Club, was in charge of this year’s application and also had to go through the president ap-plication process.

“It’s not very tedious. I’d say the most tedious part is making your of-ficers respond to your e-mails,” Ban-ning said.

Banning also has a word of advice for club president hopefuls. “It’s a lot of work to maintain, and it de-pends on what your club is about,” Banning said. “But if you’re going to have events, you need to have event coordinators. It’s very stressful for one person to do all the work.”

Cardoza started his club from the ground up and also has some advice for those encountering problems.

“Don’t give up; you can get to the point to where you wonder what am I doing all this for,” Cardoza said, “but you just need to get the word out.”

5. Determine a Focus – What will the main goals of your club be? Determine a focus and

build upon it. If you don’t have a focus, you don’t have a club.

6. Prepare Application – Make sure you have campus e-mails for all five founding mem-

bers and your adviser, every possible bit of information about your club (i.e. possible acronym, category, college), possible meeting space information and most importantly your constitution.

7. Register Online – This is a task that many find difficult. Most clubs have prob-

lems, and this is the step where most new clubs fail to become approved.

8. Recognition/Approval Status – After you complete steps one through seven you must wait for

approval. This process can take a while as 250 or more clubs reap-ply every year.

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