<p>if you just say you're the founder, that's pretty much the same as saying you're holding any office. and plus, can't you still take initiative and be a leader in the club? people know you started it, so offer your advice to the new officers, and they'll probably come back to you in the future too. spend lots of time with the club advisor planning your activities, and ask if you could just "listen in" on the officer meetings. i dunno, just some ideas.</p>
<p>lol the op's post is a classic example of how college has degraded everything in hs into something to put on the app. ppl join clubs w/o knowing *** is going on jsut so they can put "i was part of _________ club" and becuase of that clubs hold little weight. like i said Vin, its a sad story and you really got screwed over but its not a significant loss. U were the founder and that is the most important thing because you took the time to establish and set up the club. But on a bigger scale, president, founder, or member, it makes no difference. You were part of the club and thats all they'll see, so achieve at higher levels where its more exclusive and more significant</p>
<p>Well, the problem was none of my friends showed up!! another "group" of friends just entered every position and had eveyone vote for each other..I should have just postponed the meeting, but the sponsor was aldready there, meeting times had aldready been posted, etc..that's where my problem was.. oh well. It's not that bad, like you say, there are much more important things to worry about.</p>
<p>I understand - highschool kids are mean leadership posistion-stealing evil people. Things like STUCO, and other generally "open" posistions are difficult to get into. Our high school is extremely cliqueish, my clique happening to be the smarter kids. We took our revenge at NHS officer elections.</p>
<p>At my school, the NHS officers ARE the stugo kids. </p>
<p>Really makes it difficult for anyone else to get noticed.</p>
<p>I don't think that officer/leadership status will give any significant boosts. It's more the dedication (as in how long--for example I've played two varsity sports for three years although I'm not the captain or anything) than the quantity...</p>
<p>That's terrible. I'd be so angry if I were you.</p>
<p>A similar scenario unfolded in French Club. A group of ten or so girls showed up for Election Day, and won all of the offices. Now, none of them go, and only my friends showed up. It's very annoying.</p>
<p>My friend and I also had the idea to start up a Film Club at my school. However, we are gathering a group of three or so other people who we know are interested in film, and would actually be dedicated to the club. We are choosing officers before the club officially begins so that 'nothing goes wrong.' We also thought that the club would be more likely to survive (a lot of clubs in our school have minimal attendance) if a stable office is already set up.</p>
<p>actually that sort of happened to me, too...anyway, what will likely happen, if they're not as dedicated, is that they will stop caring and the club will fragment...then you gather some supporters, and stage a coup. is impeachment in your club constitution?</p>
<p>i founded a sadd chapter last year...got elected prez for that year...re-ran, but someone showed up with a bunch of friends and got elected...and now the club is dying...it's kind of sad to watch, actually.</p>
<p>at my school, at least, there's no requirement about founders becoming prez...we're a bit too democratic, i guess...and yeah, popularity contests suck.</p>
<p>Also, do you really need colleges to give you credit for this? Isn't being a part of a film club enough if you really like film? You needn't to everything just for what colleges think. (The current officers seem to have been even more concerned about this)</p>
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A similar scenario unfolded in French Club. A group of ten or so girls showed up for Election Day, and won all of the offices. Now, none of them go, and only my friends showed up. It's very annoying.
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This is something you should bring up with the club advisor. The rules can be changed (at least in the future) to automatically remove people from club offices if they miss a specified number of meetings, fail to initiate activities, etc.</p>
<p>But by and large you need to separate "holding office" in the French club from "participating" in the club. Was your main motivation in joining to get elected to a club office, or to do french-related activities? If the latter, then nothing has changed. Those 10 girls weren't going to show up and take part whether they were elected or not. The people that do show up are the core members, and you can take the initiative to start activities such as films, trips to french-related businesses and restaurants, book discussions, whatever you can dream up. And if there aren't enough people to do these things, well, there wouldn't have been if you were an officer either. You can attack that problem by recruiting people to start attending the meetings. The only difference between being an officer and not is that the officers have control over how the club funds are spent, but I don't think that should hold you back from doing anything; they didn't have thousands at their disposal, just a few bucks that you don't even need for most french-related activities anyway.</p>