MM Elections, 2005-2006 school year

[Ryan T]

elections are only a couple days away... we've got a lot of unopposed positions currently and i think a little competition would be healthy in promoting the club.

to all the candidates running, i've got a few questions.

MM was founded as a motorsport club and from that comes cars as opposed to many other automotive clubs that sit around and bench race and talk about which chrome spinnaz go with their body kits, y0. so how do you plan to keep the motorsport aspect as the dominant focus?

how do you plan to promote MM to the JMU community?

how do you plan to promote MM to the local motorsports community? (nasa-va, vmsc, scca, etc.)

many friendships have come from people meeting in MM and talkin cars. how do you plan to help cohesion with current members and what are you planning on doing to recruit new members?

how do you plan on raising money for the club?

discuss.

Keeping motorsports as the primary function of the club shouldn't be too hard...since thats all we really do. That is one reason I would like to promote more social events. But as far as keeping the motorsports alive, I do have a few ideas. As I'm sure everyone knows/has noticed, we primarily do events through NASA-VA with Chris and Laura Cobetto. Now NASA is a wonderful organization and I really enjoy working with them, but I wouldn't mind seeing the club out at some other events. Perhaps we could get involved with some SCCA events or vmsc. I know vmsc holds lots of auto-x events.

As I said in my initial speech, promotion of MM will be through large black and yellow wings and huge car banners. Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of advertising the club to the modified cars around campus, much like we did before the car show.

I don't feel there is any serious need to promote MM to NASA as we already have a good relationship with them. I believe that if we could get some members to go to a few of the vmsc auto-x and such and get our name out then we could maybe organize an event with them.

Recruiting new members could begin with the putting flyers on cars. I believe that once we get someone to a meeting, if they are really into the motorsports aspect of cars then there will be no problem having them as members. If they come to a meeting looking for rice...and leave then I don't see that much of a loss since rice is not what we are going for. I'm a firm believer in quality over quantity. As I said before, more social events will help with the cohesion of members.

Raising money is always an important topic...but never a fun one to have to do. The 'writing a letter to your parents' idea that we've thrown around but never really done could work. Making the car show bigger and better will help with the money since that is our big money maker of the year. The auto-x events we run also make money for the club. I'm not sure on an exact figure of how much we earned for the one we held with NASA at VMP on sunday, but I'm sure its not just chump change.

I want anyone and everyone with questions to post them up. Elections are in 2 days and we need to get more information out there and more overall interest in this election. This is the future of MM were talking about here.