Anthropology Club

At the first club meeting of the semester we saw a lot of new faces and planned some great events for the rest of the semester! We already have a lot coming up, so if you couldn’t make it or didn’t write everything down, here’s what we discussed:

General club updates:

• We will hold meetings on Mondays at 8:30 from here on out. The next one will be on September 27th for a game night! This is just going to be a laid-back meeting to get to know each other better, so if you’ve been waiting to get involved this is a great time for it! This will be in Union Stateroom 2 (near the food court).
• Anyone is welcome to show up to club meetings/events but if you want to be an official member of the club you need to pay a $5 due and show up to at least one club activity. Having members allows our club to do more and get funding for conferences throughout the year.
• If you would like an Anthropology t-shirt from last year, we still have some for sale for $15!
• We now have a club wiki!! Anyone in the club can edit this page whenever they like. It will be a very useful site for us to interact more easily: http://ksuanthroclub.wetpaint.com/.

Upcoming Events:

• On Wednesday, September 22nd we will be having a meet and greet event in Waters 201A. This will be an informal opportunity to get to know other Anthropology majors and professors and to welcome our new professor, Dr. Falcone, to K-State! A few students will be talking about their Anthro-related summer experiences as well. Aaaaand there will be food.
• We are planning a club camp-out on September 25th, but no details set yet.
• Finally, we are holding a book sale as a club fundraiser on September 30th and October 1st. We’ll have a table set up in Bosco Plaza from 8am-1pm both days and we need volunteers to take shifts! Go to the wiki to sign up for a shift.
• All of these events already are or will shortly be on our Facebook page, so check that out!

Conferences! These are a great opportunity to meet other Anthropologists, learn more about the fields you are interested in, or even present your own research. And they’re always a ton of fun to travel to. I will create Facebook events for each of these so that those who want to attend can get registered and make travel plans. Some are sooner than others, but here’s a heads up for all the ones coming up in this year:

• Plains Anthropological Conference – This will be October 6th-9th in Bismarck, North Dakota. This conference is focused on Archaeology, but there will also be presentations related to other Anthro fields. More information: http://www.ou.edu/cas/archsur/plainsanth/meeting/meeting.htm. You can also talk with Professor Ritterbush if this seems like something you’d be interested in!
• American Folklore Society (AFS) Annual Meeting – This will be October 13th-16th in Nashville, Tennessee. More information here (http://www.afsnet.org/annualmeet/index.cfm) or talk with Professor Kershner if you’re interested!
• American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting – This conference is being held in New Orleans November 17th-21st. Some Anthro students are already planning to attend this conference on the 20th and 21st. If you would like to go, it would be a good idea register as a member on AAA’s website (http://www.aaanet.org/membership/join.cfm) so that you can get a reduced price for the conference. Here’s the conference page: http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/.
• Central States Anthropological Society (CSAS) Annual Meeting – This will be April 7th-9th in Iowa City, Iowa. This conference is usually pretty well attended by members of the club and will probably get funding. Here’s information on the conference: http://www.creighton.edu/groups/csas/annualmeeting/index.php. We’ll plan more for this later on!

Sorry this was so long! We look forward to getting to know more people throughout the semester and year! Please talk to/email any of the officers if you ever have questions/suggestions/whatever.

Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to the meeting last night! We discussed a variety of upcoming events, and I think we have a lot of interesting things in the making.

Club Fees: First order of business…there will be a small membership fee this year in the amount of five dollars ($5). This money goes towards club activities such as CSAS fees and the end-of-year Graduate shindig. We’ve set a (flexible) deadline of October 31st. The money goes to our Treasurer, Kale Yoder.

Meetings: Our plan is to meet every other Thursday at 7pm. The location is likely to vary, however emails will be sent out, as well as information posted online, as to our whereabouts. Our next meeting will be on Thursday, October 8th at 7pm. Movie Night!! We’ll be watching the film Baraka. Hannah, our club secretary, has been nice enough to let us use her house. Directions will be sent out over email and can be found on our Facebook page.

Activities: A lot of really good ideas were thrown around and discussed. Among these were Movie Nights, Mini-Trips (within a 5-hour radius), Local Workshops, Flint Napping at Tuttle Creek, Kickball (at which we can hopefully get some professors to join in) and Atlatl Throwing. Any other/additional ideas are most welcome and can either be posted here, posted on our Facebook page, or emailed. A major event coming up in the next little while is CSAS. While no concrete plans exist as of yet, you can view more information about the conference above.

Fundraising: Anth Club t-shirts are in the making as you read this and will be sold to make money for future club events. Updated information on the t-shirts will be posted as it becomes available. Another fundraising idea was Bramlage clean-up. The club will be paid to sweep up after games at Bramlage. This is an excellent opportunity to make money for club activities. Anyone interested in volunteering, please contact one of the club officers for more information. Again, any and all fundraising ideas are most welcome!

Website: We encourage anyone and everyone to post their own interesting news/information on our website. All you have to do is register (lower right hand column on this page). To quote an earlier post, “If you come across anything that interests you that you think others in the Anthro Club would be interested in, go ahead and post it, whether it be a video, news link, ranting, etc. Hopefully we can get some good discussion going.”

Hope to see everyone at the next meeting!

We had our first meeting of the semester this Tuesday. It was a wondrous time with old members and new!

We voted that the annual bbq will be Tuesday, September 23 from 6-8pm at Poyntz Shelter in City Park. The club will provide hotdogs, hamburgers, crackers and drinks. We ask that you either bring a side dish or $2 to contribute. Besides good grub and hangin’ out, we will also have a stereo, so bring some tunes (aka cd’s)! And don’t forget your game face because we’ve got plans in that regard as well. (more…)

Last Friday we met at the bowling alley and bowled. We had a quick meeting where we discussed what will happen in the days to come. November will have a movie night, Bollywood themed or African themed, up to members. We voted Jenae Haskell as the Vice President Temporaire and we bowled some more.

Conrad – Secretary

We hope to re-energize the club this semester with plenty of social events for anthropology majors and club members to get to know eachother, the staff, and learn more about anthropology at KSU and across the world.

We had our first officers meeting last night and (more…)

• 6 people in attendance
• Open House is this Saturday April 14th!! If you can stop by to help or have any cultural “artifacts” to contribute to make our table even cooler, email Ashley Conrad at aflac@ksu.edu. Hope to see you there!
• Club BBQ will be April 21st around 4:30pm you can show up to learn flintknapping and how to throw an atlatl. Dinner will start cooking around 6pm. Club will provide the meat, etc but club members are encouraged to bring other items like beverages, fruit, chips, dip, etc. Location map/directions will be emailed to the club listserv at a later date but it will be at Tuttle Creek Reservoir. (more…)

Only 8 members present. Many committees did not send a representative.

•  At the last Bramlage Cleanup we had 6 or 7 people, good job! Next Bramlage Cleanup is on March 9th at 9:30pm. Be there or be square!
• Caroline – maybe talk with Ritterbush about a Archaeology Day where we do flintknapping, throw an atlatl, etc. Need wide open area. Sometime in April?
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Introductions- A few new people came to the meeting. We introduced ourselves and told them a little bit about the club. Then we got down to business.

A. Big Trip- Maria reporting
1. Asks, when leaving and returning?
She’s contacting people for free stuff along the way.
Distributed plans for the trip. (more…)

Below are the minutes from our meeting on November 11, 2006. We got an update from all committees. (more…)

Below are the minutes from our second meeting on October 9th, 2006. We got an update from all committees. (more…)