FiCom Semester Additional Funding Requests March 2009 - Week of 1st to 8th

= Sunday 8th =

Status (for FiCom or COCA use):

 * Decision:  Approved,  for $203, please see FiCom Meeting Minutes for more details.
 * Date of Decision: 03-11

Group and Contact Information

 * Name: The Film Collective
 * Account No: not yet assigned
 * Contact Name: Meredith Lackey
 * Email: mhl07@hampshire.edu

Screening Information

 * Title: A Night of Film Shorts
 * Location: Main Lecture Hall
 * Description: A collection of short films shown on April 10th. The films will be rented with the help of Media Services, and will be prints that the Hampshire College collection does not own. These films are very expensive to rent because only a small number of prints exists, and the condition of a 16mm film deteriorates each time it is shown. We plan on renting four short films, at a cost of 40-50 dollars each.
 * Projected Attendance: 30

Screening Expenses

 * Food: $ 60.00
 * Rental: $ 200.00
 * Advertising: $ 5.00
 * Other: $ -0-
 * TOTAL: $ 265.00

Status (for FiCom or COCA use):

 * Decision:  Approved,  for $203, please see FiCom Meeting Minutes for more details.
 * Date of Decision: 03-11

Group and Contact Information

 * Name: The Film Collective
 * Account No: not yet assigned
 * Contact Name: Meredith Lackey
 * Email: mhl07@hampshire.edu

Screening Information

 * Title: A Second Night of Film: Full on Full Feature
 * Location: Main Lecture Hall
 * Description: A feature length film will be shown on 3/20. The film will be rented with the help of Media Services, and will not be owned by Hampshire College. These films are very expensive to rent because only a small number of prints exist, and the condition of a 16mm film deteriorates each time it is shown. We plan on renting a feature length film, tentatively "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm", and the projected cost of rental is $200.
 * Projected Attendance: 30+

Screening Expenses

 * Food: $ 60.00
 * Rental: $ 200.00
 * Advertising: $ 6.00
 * Other: $ -0-
 * TOTAL: $ 266.00

= Friday 6th =

Status (for FiCom or COCA use):

 * Decision:  Approved,  for $300, please see FiCom Meeting Minutes for more details.
 * Date of Decision: 03-11

Group and Contact Information

 * Name: The Film Collective
 * Account No: new - not assigned yet
 * Contact Name: Meredith Lackey
 * Email: mhl07@hampshire.edu

Meeting Information

 * Meeting Frequency: weekly
 * Number of Meeting:  11
 * Projected Attendance: 25

Meeting Expenses

 * Food per Person: $ 4.00 (didn't specify amount so I did $4/pp x 25 peeps x 11 meetings)
 * Total Food: $ 1100.00
 * Advertising: $ -0-
 * Magic Board: $ -0-
 * TOTAL: $ 1100.00

= Thursday 5th =

Status (for FiCom or COCA use):

 * Decision:  Approved,  please see FiCom Meeting Minutes for more details.
 * Date of Decision: 03-23

Group and Contact Information

 * Name: Climbers' Coalition
 * Account No: 711
 * Contact Name: Max Neale
 * Email: mdn05@hampshire.edu

Trip Information

 * Name: Spring Break Trip
 * Attendance: 8
 * Date: 3/13-3/22
 * Destination: Sommersville, WV and Slade, KY
 * Description: We will travel to two of the best rock climbing destinations in the US. These are the Red River Gorge in KY and New River Gorge in WV. We will spend 2 transit nights in motels and the rest at campgrounds.
 * Event Upon Return: Slideshow, screening

Trip Expenses

 * Fee per Person: $
 * Gas: $ 425.00
 * Lodging: $ 698.00 (Camping (7 nights): $448 2 nights in motel (two rooms): $250)
 * Other: $ 990.00
 * Description of Other: 12 Passenger van rental: $886 + tax + additional mileage fees = ~$990
 * TOTAL: $2113.00

= Wednesday 4th =

Status (for FiCom or COCA use):

 * Decision:  Approved,  please see FiCom Meeting Minutes for more details.
 * Date of Decision: 03-08

Group and Contact Information

 * Name: Hampshire College Curling Club
 * Account No: 649
 * Contact Name: Richard Smith
 * Email: rrs05@hampshire.edu

Trip Information

 * Name: 2009 National College Curling Tournament
 * Attendance: 4
 * Date: 3/13/09 -3/16/09
 * Destination: Chicago, IL
 * Description: The National College Curling Tournament is the highest level of competition for college curling. Our team will represent Hampshire and compete against teams representing other colleges from across the country, including Boston University, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin, and Northwestern University.

Our team will carpool to Bradley International Airport in the morning on Friday, March 13, park in Long Term Lot 1, and fly to Chicago O'Hare Airport. The tournament ends on Sunday, March 15, but it will likely end in the evening, so our team will stay that night in Chicago and fly back in the morning on March 16. A high level of planning is involved with this trip. Besides the cost of plane tickets and hotel rooms, we will need to travel by taxi to get from the airport to the hotel, and then from the hotel to the Chicago Curling Club and back each day.


 * Event Upon Return: Our group will host an open house for new college curlers at the Petersham Curling Club, as well as a film screening on campus.

Trip Expenses

 * Fee per Person: $ 187.50 Transportation Ticket Cost Per Person (Total = $750.00)
 * Gas: $ 39.17
 * Lodging: $ 273.00
 * Other: $ 373.00
 * Description of Other: $100 to cover the tournament entree fee ($25 per person). See: www.collegecurling.org - $44 to cover parking fee for four days in Long Term Lot 1 at Bradley International Airport. The fee is $11 per day. See: www.bradleyairport.com/Parking/rates.aspx

- $70 to cover round-trip taxi cab expenses between the airport and hotel. Google Maps lists the hotel at 12.1 miles away from the airport, which would take approximately 20 minutes to drive. The Carriage Cab Company is a local cab business and their rate is determined as follows: $2.25 for the first passenger and $1 for each additional passenger (3 extra passengers), plus $1.80 per mile (12.1 miles) and $2 per 6 minutes (20 minutes). According to that formula, each trip should cost about $35. See: www.chicagocarriagecab.com/rates.asp - $159 to cover round trip taxi cab expenses between the Marriott Courtyard hotel and the Chicago Curling Club for the 3 days of the tournament. The curling club is 8.1 miles away from the tournament hotel, which would take approximately 16 minutes to travel. By the formula above, the cost would be about $26.50 each ride, thus $53 per day (two rides per day), and $159 during the 3 days of the tournament.


 * TOTAL: $1435.17

= Monday 3rd =

Status (for FiCom or COCA use):

 * Decision:  Approved,  for $105, please see FiCom Meeting Minutes for more details.
 * Date of Decision: 03-11

Group and Contact Information

 * Name: Contra Dance Collective
 * Account No: 712
 * Contact Name: Maya Bauer
 * Email: mab05@hampshire.edu

Equipment Information

 * Name: Compact Disks
 * Description: Compact Discs to be purchased from the bands that play in greenfield each week (or at other CDC funded dances). The music of local bands playing contra dance music
 * Purpose: Having CDs of the music that the CDC dances to every week available to the Hampshire Community at large will support a growing knowledge and appreciation for the local heritage and history of this area, and support musicians and bands, and be a great asset to this campus. Bringing back recordings of the music that we dance to live every week will offer this musical experience to all the people who benefit from Hampshire's library system. The CDs will act as an opportunity to support and encourage a better interaction between local culture and the five colleges.
 * Storage Location: Hampshire College Library

Equipment Expenses

 * TOTAL: $ 225.00 15 cds to be purchased for 15.00 USD at the upcoming dances this semester.

= Sunday 1st =

Status (for FiCom or COCA use):

 * Decision:  Approved,  please see FiCom Meeting Minutes for more details.
 * Date of Decision: 03-11

Group and Contact Information

 * Name: Olfactory Oligarchs
 * Account No: 705
 * Contact Name: David Axel Kurtz
 * Email: dak06@hampshire.edu

Other Expenses

 * Description: We just put on our first public workshop and it went very well! We had 13 people come, and 6 more people arrived later for a make-up session. Everyone got to make two candles to take home. Everything was made out of sustainable ingredients, and was handmade! We'd love to be able to do another candle-making. We have some things left over, but we need to replenish some things. Also, many people wanted to request a set of dyes and fragrances for the next time around. It would make things more creative. We'd also love to get some beeswax. Unfortunately, with all the bees dying, beeswax is very expensive now. We would only buy from sustainable apiaries, who don't use pesticides or antiobiotics.

We would like: $30 for dyes (6 x $5) $20 for fragrances (10 x $2) $30 for containers (2 x $15) $60 for wax (and shipping the wax) $120 for beeswax this will be enough for us to have another public candle-making, even better than our first.


 * TOTAL: $ 260.00