Soo, please read this before you spread any more negativity. Honestly, my heart is breaking reading what people are sending me that you’ve said. You’re attacking my personal efforts and I don’t understand why.
It is senseless, mean, and really not something i would expect from a grad student to be so aggressively writing about issues you’ve never brought to any forum, luncheon, info session, or council member. Beyond this, it’s an abuse of the link I shared. That link was to let people know that I personally worked insanely hard to provide Broadway-caliber performers for people to enjoy, while raising money for Cancer Research… not for you to use for your pcom-bashing purposes. Council will definitely be helping, but what you’re writing is attacking my personal efforts and mine alone.
The reason Julie’s taking your posts so hard is because you are very clearly attacking someone’s hard work, without actually talking with them or anyone related to get clear facts. Ranting about these points without actual understanding is what’s making you look ignorant. And you just posted that you would not even talk with Council, which is just coming off bitchy and closed-minded.
Here is the info you’ve been referencing.
1. The performers were not charged at the last event. that was a mistake at the door; had anyone notified me of what happened with the latin dancers, they would have been immediately refunded. they arrived a lot later than the other performers, so the door person – not knowing who they were – may have thought they were trying to get in for free. mistakes happen. you should not hold such a grudge for something that just came to light. we were extremely short staffed, so katie and i could not be at the door the entire time to supervise…
2. If you want bookkeeping, you should ask. We – as the Student Council – have no reason to publicly post our finances, as most of it is simply funding luncheons, flyers, info sessions, workshops, intern bags, etc; as a student organization there is no need to post our expenses. You are more than welcome to see everything we do. You have never asked to see these things; therefore you didn’t. Using my link to badmouth a school you have issues with is not the proper use of an event’s info that i have worked so hard to put together.
3. The ticket price in november was based on fund-RAISING. it was not based on anything else. we took polls of over thirty students who all said $25 was fair. beyond that, at the show patrons gave $30 and $40, telling us to keep the change. but outside of that, the event was open to the public, for those afore-mentioned fundraising purposes… it was not necessarily geared towards just pcom students being in attendance. and if students are so strapped for cash, why are half of them posting about going to phish shows, bayside concerts, seeing david foster, and other broadway shows. all of these events are more than $40, and we only charged $25.
4. As for expenses, the theatre rental was $600, paid for entirely out of the SC budget, not out of the funds raised. All of the funds taken that night went to the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. Had you read the fliers, listened when the show was discussed, or paid attention, you would have realized that the event was a fundraiser for them. not avery man.. not cairey tai… for the sickle cell disease association of america. Cairey was one of my closest friends, and I held her hand when they took her off life-support, but I cannot raise money for her family. That would be inappropriate. Cairey and Avery were memorialized because we felt it was the right thing to do – the night was held in memoriam. But, the money did not go to the families; it went straight to sickle cell research. In addition, there was no “spring” show, just the one last november.
5. Even I did not like the person at the door just taking cash from people with no kind of accounting table. Okay? But that’s all we could do. My mom’s an accountant, so I like clean books, but there was no one versed enough to do this at the last show. We took the cash drawer from the night, put everything in an envelope, and handed it to Amanda to deposit. I don’t like shitty bookkeeping, so this time the ticketing is being done online – through TicketLeap.com; if you would like to see attendance after the night has passed, you are more than welcome!
6. As nice as I can say this, please take down my link. Spread love, not hatred. I am not PCOM. I have never done anything mean or malicious to you. All of your words are a complete personal attack on me, as I’m the one in charge of this… and pretty much doing it by myself. I lost a grandmother, a grandfather, and my mother to cancer… I’m doing this, because I want to raise money for this cause. I don’t deserve this abuse. I really don’t. Please take down that post.
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