Nickname said:
We need to realize that Kaz-ka and the people that left with him are students, who we are catering to. We need to try to work together, not drive a deeper wedge through the student population.
Yes and no.
It would please me greatly if the students who left the club would return, BUT there are very serious limits as to what we should do to get them back. One of the big reasons for the craziness that went down last semester was that a segment within the club formed into a clique (which Kaz-Ka was apart of) and started desiring greater influence over the club. The clique did what it wanted to do and what it didn’t care about became low priorities for the club as a whole. That is why we went from one or two fighting games to four or five. That is why the servers collected dust. That is why Kaz-Ka and company conspired against the alumni at mini-LANs. That is why there was no signfigant work on the constitution for a semester-and-a-half. When they didn’t get their way, they acted like spoiled children, broke university law, and *edited*ed off both SGA and ITS.
Yeah, we should try to get them back, but I don’t think we need to give into any demands. So far, the only demands they have listed have been so vague and baseless (“The alumni are pulling the strings behind the scenes! Kick them out!”) that we can’t take them seriously. Next semester, I imagine their new club will fall apart and they will want to come back here. When that happens, we will welcome them with open arms, but change nothing. We have a new, fully-functional constitution and populated servers. For the first time in ages, we are at least a little bit on SGA’s good side. The only thing this club needs to be great again is more members.