[The_herald] UND Involvement Expo, 8/22/2007, 10:00 am

[Dianna Haught]

That sort of backward thinking isn't it?  Why would we want to attract people who wouldn't want to wear garb?  How are they going to participate?  Especially when our message is "don't come to business meetings we are too boring for you to want to participate."  Why would we want members who don't want to do what we do?  If we were a civil war group, we'd show up in uniforms with muskets.  People aren't generally stupid.  They know that historical recreation groups wear historical costumes.  Why would we purposely try to misrepresent ourselves? 

Seeing someone in public in garb - seeing fighters fighter is generally how new members are attracted.  WE WANT people who are attracted to this aspect, not people who are repelled by it.  
Avacyn

>Yeah we are a recreation group. That's not at issue; what we don't want to have happen is to scare off any potential new members who would at first be joining MARS, the UND arm of things. 
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>With the Involvement Expo, the target demographic UND is looking to bring there is college freshman. 17-19 years old, away from home for the first time looking to be active members of the UND community. Showing up in grab can be very intimidating for first timers. 
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>We only wear grab at events, not business meetings, or A&S nights or a lot of other functions we regularly do. 
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>I'd rather that we intice them with the shiny or pretty things and bring them into garb wearing a bit later than potentially alienate them or having us end up as something we'd rather not be. 
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>I hope this make some sense. 
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>-peter