[Fwd: University clubs]

[eusa_co]

If you know of an Esperanto club in a college/university, please let me
know.



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Subject: University clubs
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 15:29:38 +0000
From: Francesca Ligorio <francesc...@hotmail.com>
To: in...@esperanto-usa.org <in...@esperanto-usa.org>

Saluton!
I have been wanting to create an Esperanto club for many years now. I am
now focusing on creating one at my community college, and the student
life director asked me if there are any other Esperanto clubs at
universities around the US. I’m assuming that she asked to see if a club
would be viable. I’ve heard that there are clubs at colleges, but I
can’t find any of them online. What are a few colleges that have active
Esperanto clubs?
Thank you,
Francesca Ligorio
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Bill HARRIS
Esperanto-USA
www.esperanto-usa.org

[Murray Merner]

Here's something.  I don't think this is an active club:

https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/ua016_059-001-bx0008-032-000#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2698%2C-1%2C8795%2C4422 

Maybe Principia College 

Murray

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[Nick Woods]

There are a couple students at the University of Washington who are fluent Esperanto speakers and are in the process of starting an artificial language club there. I'll ask them to send you an email if you're interested.

[Universero, Trio]

Salutojn!

For background, i have been teaching "Comversational Esperanto" at
Stanford University's International Center since 1990. See
http://esperanto.org/stanford/ for all the details (and a website
needing updates :).

Clubs come and go, not unlike clubs, for example, based around the
games Go, or Diplomacy. They don't have the establishment beihnd them
like Chess or Fencing. But there's always somebody interested, and
every once in a while a leader comes along and there's a critical mass
of students who will just make it happen. That lasts for some years
until they graduate and new blood has to coagulate again.

For the last few years i had a young woman who is brilliant (i'll
watch for her to get a Nobel in Math), but not a fighter against
bureacracy. She just graduated. Now there's a young man, vera
esperantisto, who may be able to get it together and we'll have a club
again. (Mi kopias lin ĉe ĉi tiu mesaĝo - Saluton Mateo! :)

I only know Stanford, but they are very heavily rules oriented
these days. They are afraid that clubs would form, just to get money
for beer. Only beer. So, they have rules that give students good
practice in practically getting and maintaing a 501(c)(3), and/or
advocating against them by others. It's not the "warm and fuzzy"
system of like-minded people that it used to be.

Defioj: #1 If your school requires a set number of students to
begin, then you wind up in a chicken or egg situation: you can't use
University resources to let people know about the club until there's
enough people who know about the club to have formed it already. #2
About 7 or 8 years ago there was a very active club (young, smart,
energetic woman attracted enough interest to get it going). They only
lasted a couple of years. In that time dozens(!) of people joined and
learned Esperanto, Toki Pona, Chinese, linguistics, whatever. They had
a LOT of fun creating a game (something to do with hiding your keys).
They were NOT good at filling mandatory positions of President,
Secretary, Treasurer, etc., or having meetings at set times during
business hours, or filing "progress" reports, or learning Robert's
Rules. They were judged unworthy. #3 Unfortunately, there are
"Linguists" who are very happy to be ignorant and yet be negative
about Esperanto! When a new Head of the Department started a couple of
decades ago, i was invited along with all the other "special/minority
language" teachers to a potluck. They laughed at me when they said
everyone should bring something from their culture. I said "That's
easy. I have the whole world to choose from." I thought it was pretty
witty (not my strong point), but they've never invited me to anything
since. So, getting a Faculty Sponsor is non-trivial under hostile
conditions.

It can be done, But, at least in my case, there's little i can do
to help. The students have to be strong and attractive, play the game,
and make their case.

Bonŝancon!

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