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

[Jason Cesana]

Not to upset anyone but I have a question for Scott. 
Scott have you looked into other clubs that offer this type of memberships
and what they offer their "junior" members? Could you elaborate on that
subject? I think we all want to see something but don't want to do it
half-A@#!! We should do it right.
Jason

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Membership policy

I cannot say that this proposal has captivated my imagination.

Many organizations offer "junior" memberships, which are generally limited
to persons under the upper age range of this proposal.  I can understand the
reasons for terming it a "student" membership -- what young person wants to
be labeled as "junior" -- but I am surprised to find it encompassing persons
older than age 18.

Personally, I think that such a membership should be limited to persons
under age 18, but making the assumption that it is students we wish to
target, not just younger people, how 'bout we define eligibility based on
student status instead of age?  How 'bout defining student as those younger
than age 18, enrolled in primary or secondary schools (elementary, middle,
and high school), and those age above age 18 enrolled full-time in two-year
or four-year undergraduate colleges.  No grad students, no doctoral
candidates, but some flexibility on age.

Next, I am really perplexed by the notion of providing with this membership
every-other issue of the Communique.  That's like getting a student ticket
to a show but you have to leave at intermission.  If the object is, as
stated, "to employ a strategy to acquire a deeper membership base for the
future - but also provide a mechanism to allow the mentorship of
grandparents, parents, aunts & uncles, brother & sisters, guardians etc.,"
then it should not and cannot be a "half" membership.  Half-price, sure --
that's what student discounts are all about -- but not half of the product.

Obviously, this every-other issue scheme is intended to save costs, but it
defeats the purpose of the program.  If you want to save costs on student
membership, develop a real way of delivering Communique content
electronically and do that for student memberships.

But in sum, I don't like it.  It is deck-chair re-arranging.  Yes, I think
that we ought to develop some kind of junior membership for minors, but what
we have to offers to those juniors at present is a pretty stale
organization.  And, to judge by this proposal, half of a pretty stale
organization.

--Bob Marlow

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