Starting campus clubs made easier with
new rules and requirements

Ara Ortiz
Staff writer

Student groups looking to official¬ly form a campus club no longer have to jump through hoops to get started.

The requirements to start a club have gotten easier at Ventura Col¬lege with the help of the Associated Students of Ventura College Vice President Raymond Morua, who led the movement to change the previous club forms.
“The forms were a mess and were outdated. Second, there were many difficult hoops that club founders had to jump through,” he said. “I pro¬posed it, drafted the changes and pre¬sented it to the board that voted on it and approved it.”

The process to start a club at VC is now simpler than before. Only five ASVC cardholders are needed to start a club. In the past, 15 ASVC cardhold¬ers were needed and advisors for a club had to be full-time professors.

Now, faculty advisors can either be part-time or full-time professors. Clubs can now ask ASVC for grants up to $500 when in the past they could only ask for $100. The changes in club forms are effective immediately.

The inability to get a full-time fac¬ulty member to advise clubs and the lack of money received through ASVC grants were among the problems many clubs had with the previous requirements, according to Morua. “This was a huge problem for new clubs trying to get recognition status,” he said.

Morua isn’t the only one happy to see the overturn in club form restric¬tions. Anthropology Club advisor Gigi Fiumerodo believes both students and faculty will benefit from the change. “I think the change will be a posi¬tive [one],” she said. “I think the more that can be done to encourage student activities on campus, the better, both for students and for faculty interested in experiencing the unique collabora¬tion advisors have with club mem¬bers”

Morua’s motivation for making changes to the club requirements was simple. “[These] clubs make Ventura Col¬lege. I thought they should have an easier time [getting started],” he said.
For more information on getting a club started on campus, call ASVC at (805) 654-6449. issuu.com/studentvoice/docs/edition6