Williams Language Club
In service of the Williams College Language CommunityUpdates on the Language Club Cafe
Hi everyone,
I’ve made a lot of progress with OCL today! Updates on Language Club Cafe:-
1. Baxter Hall is officially reserved from 6:30pm-10:30pm on Tuesday Nov.10! One and a half hours before the event starts should give us enough time to set up everything.
2. Jessica suggested that we request $110 more on the budget proposal. The money goes to Facilities so they can let us borrow some furniture, and hire masculine workers to deliver it for us! The furniture includes four 8-ft tables, twenty to thirty chairs and many linens. That makes the total budget $535.
3. In order to get our budget approved we need to attend the Grand Committee meeting at 5pm next Wednesday. I’m dragging TY along since he’s the Treasurer! If either of you are free at that time, could you drop by as well? If you can’t, no worries!
3. We can choose colors for our table linens! I have a list of colors– this way we would have different color representations for different languages. However, if we feel it’s too distracting we can always change it into one color.
4. OCL can take care of sound system–no need to go to MCC. I just emailed the student manage for Paresky AV System (Marco Sanchez) and asked him to help us with that.
That’s it for now. I love being productive on a Friday afternoon!
-Jia Jia
Asian Studies Ice Cream Social!!
ASIAN STUDIES/JAPANESE/CHINESE ICE CREAM SOCIAL on Monday, November 2nd, from 7:30 – 8:30 PM at The Log on Spring Street. For current majors, prospective majors, and anyone interested in course offerings in the Department of Asian Studies. Perfect opportunity to learn more about our three majors, meet faculty, and current student majors. Faculty members will speak briefly about courses for spring semester and other matters of interest; students are also encouraged to bring up news items they may have and ask questions. Various flavors of ice cream with toppings galore to be served. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about all the exciting things happening in Asian Studies, Japanese, and Chinese at Williams College!
Thoughts on Meeting 10/29/09
Dear All,
Wow, tonight’s meeting was *ridiculously* productive.
Some very important things:
1. If you can, sign up for tabling in Paresky, to get
signatures for the Letter. We’re starting this coming
Wednesday, and going every day for two weeks. Please please
email if you have even just an hour free. It’ll be fun! We’ll
do it in teams.
2. If you’re interested in being a mentor, email that in, too.
We’re starting to set up events for the mentees (see minutes)
3. If you’re interested on being on either the Linguistics or
WCLC Start-Up Committees, please email Dae (10dcs) for
Linguistics or Patty (10pbc) for WCLC Start-Up. For a more
detailed description, see the minutes.
4. If you see something you don’t like in the letter, you have
until Sunday to email in comments/suggestions. After that, the
letter starts getting signatures!!!
Thanks soooo much for an amazing meeting, and for all the work
everyone is doing! If you haven’t yet, please email Dae and
Patty with your lists of people from the 101/103 outreaches.
Happy Halloween!!!
best,
Dae and Patty
PS: Program Statement also attached.
Meeting October 29, 2009
Dearest Language Club,
Just a friendly, neighborhood reminder that tonight’s meeting
is, as usual, at NAB 140 from 8:30-9:30.
Agenda:
CC Meeting De-Brief: We’re a Club!
Language Cafe Update: Where are we, where do we go from here?
The Linguistics Letter: Hammering Out the Final Version
The Linguistics Letter: Getting Signatures
Mentoring Updates: First Session Scheduling
Open Floor Time: Other Stuff?
Chinese Time with Patty & JiaJia
If you have something to add to the agenda, email me and we’ll
throw it in. 
Whew! Lots of stuff, no? Oh, and after this week, we’ll have a
*real* listserv, where people can hit *reply to all* and we
can have actual email *conversations!*
best,
Dae and Patty
IT’S OFFICIAL!
We are now a Williams College (or College Council) officially recognized student academic organization.
Since about 8:00 PM last night when we were voted into approval by the College Council.
YAY.
Soon it’ll be Official!!
Great news everyone!
Lizzy Brickley just sent this to me:
Hi Patty,
Please plan to attend the College Council Meeting this Wednesday at 7:30pm in Hopkins basement. You will be expected to give a 2-3 minute speech describing the aims, history, and participation of members of your club. Afterwards, be prepared to field a few questions before the council votes to approve your organization.
Looking forward to seeing you soon!
Sincerely,
Lizzy and Mike
CC Co-Presidents
keep your fingers crossed, although you know…I doubt we’ll really need the luck. 
Language Club Meeting
Tonight Thursday, October 22, 2009
NAB 140 8:30pm
Hey all!
(everyone read number one, please!)
1) This Week’s Meeting / Meeting Times
2) The Meeting’s Agenda (and Board Members!)
3) Lists O’ Names: Going into the Classes
Soooooooo…as of yesterday, my midterms are *finally* over and I can get down to seriously actually emailing people, as opposed to, you know, not.
1) So after getting people’s preferences, it appears that we *are* going to be sticking with Thursdays after all, as it is
still the day on which we can get the most.
We will, however, be moving from 8-9 to 8:30 to 9:30 (Antal, I’m doing this for you)! Woo-hoo! As for those people for whom this is a difficulty (Zac and Petya specifically)…let’s email about how we can make this work so that you’re still involved. I’ll also re-bring-up time concerns at tomorrow’s meeting, specifically as they relate to your schedules, to see if we can work something out.
So to recap: we’ll be meeting tomorrow, in NAB 140, at 8:30 pm
What will we do at this meeting?
2) Meeting Agenda:
Update on College Council Stuff
We’ve got new board members! Huzzah! Come to the meeting to find out how wonderful they are!
Update on the mentoring stuff/going into the classes
Drafting the Letter of Awesome to show our support for the Linguistics Program, which we will be sending out to A Great Many Administrative Bodies, and to Many Students As Well
Meeting Fun: Language of the Month (come to the meeting to find out about how grrreat this will be)
International Cafe Planning Ideas
3) Lists O’Names
Don’t forget to email me with the lists of names/mentees you’ve picked up from classes! If you haven’t gone yet,
that’s cool. If you’ve emailed me about going and I haven’t responded yet (hi Zac!) that’ll happen in a minute or two, so no worries. I think we can wrap this up by next week or so.
Leave questions/comments/things you’d like to add to the agenda!
laters,
Dae and Patty
Recruit Students: Class Visits
Language Club Flyer
Instruction Sheet: Going To The Intro Language Classes:
- Step One: Make sure you’re expected! Email Dae and Patty (10dcs, 10pbc), to confirm that yes, you do want to spend five minutes handing out flyers/collecting signatures. We’ll then contact the profs and let them know what’s up.
- Step Two: Read the flyer. And the Mission Statement.
- Step Three: Print out about fifteen flyers, depending on the size of the language class. You don’t have to print out one for every person in the class, just enough so that those who want one can have it. You can print them out either in color or grayscale; your prerogative.
- Step Four: Make a Sign-up sheet. It should have a spot for the students’ name, unix ID, and a column that asks if they’re interested in the mentoring program.
- Step Five: Go to the class! Smile, pass out flyers, say a blurb about language club (it can be basically anything from the flyer/mission statement, or whatever you want to make up). Paws around the sign-up sheet (which will gather emails for the listserv), and be sure to mention checking “yes” under mentoring, or somesuch.
- Step Six: Email the list of names/unix IDs/mentees to 10dcs and 10pbc, or pop it in an envelope and send it to SU Box 3050.
- Step Seven: Feel proud and excited that you’ve been so productive. Go you!Language Club Flyer
