<CORSA Chapters> [Corsabod] Comments Concerns - Student Membership policy

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Some very good points Bob. I especially liked your point on a Student membership being a reduced cost not reduced service. The "problem" with limiting it to 18 year olds might be that these "kids" would be covered under their parent's membership (?). But it would be valuable to those Corvair enthusiasts that aren't in a CORSA family.

Ned


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From: Vairtec at optonline.net
To: Scott Morehead <moreheadscott at yahoo.com>; chapters at corvair.org
Sent: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 9:11 am
Subject: Re: [Corsabod] <CORSA Chapters> Comments Concerns - Student Membership policy



I cannot say that this proposal has captivated my imagination.
Many organizations offer "junior" memberships, which are generally 
imited to persons under the upper age range of this proposal.  I can 
nderstand the reasons for terming it a "student" membership -- what 
oung person wants to be labeled as "junior" -- but I am surprised to 
ind it encompassing persons older than age 18.
Personally, I think that such a membership should be limited to 
ersons under age 18, but making the assumption that it is students 
e wish to target, not just younger people, how 'bout we define 
ligibility based on student status instead of age?  How 'bout 
efining student as those younger than age 18, enrolled in primary or 
econdary schools (elementary, middle, and high school), and those 
ge above age 18 enrolled full-time in two-year or four-year 
ndergraduate colleges.  No grad students, no doctoral candidates, 
ut some flexibility on age.
Next, I am really perplexed by the notion of providing with this 
embership every-other issue of the Communique.  That's like getting 
 student ticket to a show but you have to leave at intermission.  If 
he object is, as stated, "to employ a strategy to acquire a deeper 
embership base for the future - but also provide a mechanism to 
llow the mentorship of grandparents, parents, aunts & uncles, 
rother & sisters, guardians etc.," then it should not and cannot be 
 "half" membership.  Half-price, sure -- that's what student 
iscounts are all about -- but not half of the product.
Obviously, this every-other issue scheme is intended to save costs, 
ut it defeats the purpose of the program.  If you want to save costs 
n student membership, develop a real way of delivering Communique 
ontent electronically and do that for student memberships.
But in sum, I don't like it.  It is deck-chair re-arranging.  Yes, I 
hink that we ought to develop some kind of junior membership for 
inors, but what we have to offers to those juniors at present is a 
retty stale organization.  And, to judge by this proposal, half of a 
retty stale organization.
--Bob Marlow
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