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by Denny Mai, CASB VP
The first General Body Meeting for the Chinese Association
at Stony Brook, more commonly known as CASB, was held on
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008. In the same place as last
year, the Uniti Cultural Center, you found yourself crowded
among the fresh and familiar faces filled with excitement
and curiosity. The overwhelming turnout of prospective
members was too much for the decent-sized room but despite
the huge number, the majority managed to find space.
After a general introduction of what CASB is about and the
upcoming events planned for the year, nominations for class
representatives took place. Encouraged by their friends and
even family, the energetic eager students and the
stage-frightened not so eager students came up one by one to
express their interest in joining the Cabinet. After
nominations, the general body was free to do whatever they
wanted. In other words, go straight for the pizza and
drinks.
Special appearances were made by reps of other organizations
such as ASA, KSA, and PUSO to show their support.
Three
rooms were set up around the main room. The first room was
for events sign-up. Sheets of paper with previously signed
names from the Involvement Fair earlier that day were laid
neatly across the table awaiting more signatures and contact
information. The room showcased the creative and impressive
well-drawn posters of CASB as well as the picture-filled
scrapbook that captured the events and fun times CASB has
gone through. At the end of the table laid a framed mirror
and as one look at it they saw “The next CASBinet member.”
The second room was a little pit-stop that offered some
pizza and refreshments. Many students stood and conversed
with each other, drinking their “Dr. Thunder”s and “Sam’s
Cola”s.
The next room was dedicated to an important part of CASB –
CASB Dance Team (CDT). They showed video clips of past
performances, including last year’s Involvement Fair
performance, and their latest crowd-pleasing performance,
worthy of an encore, China Night 2008.
The
friendly and eager attitudes transformed those who were shy
and reluctant students into being more open and comfortable.
Any one who is interested in learning more about CASB or
wants to be involved, they can contact CASB via their
Facebook group, Chinese Association at Stony Brook, or
through e-mail,
stonycasb@gmail.com. Watch for any updates of upcoming
events on their webpage,
stonycasb.blogspot.com.
Hope to
see you there!
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