Below is the application for the office of Coordinator. As this is an emergency election whomever the winner is, they will serve out the remainder of the term of the person they are succeeding, at the end of that term elections will be held as normal. The application will be open until 3/9/2011 at ~2:00am, at the end of this time an election will be held.

REPLY TO TOPIC TO APPLY.

Some Coordinator Responsibilities:
- It is the Coordinator’s responsibility to be knowledgeable about current UGL policies and how they create and relate to precedence. As Coordinator, you will be asked to uphold past and create new policies accordingly.
- Because of the above, it is necessary that the Coordinator be heavily involved on the forums both in the past and in the future. Most of UGL’s business is managed online, through the forums. Additionally, the Coordinator acts as a year-round global forum moderator.
- The Coordinator’s primary responsibility is to act as the organization’s contact person for Ball State. This means that any instance in which the University might need to contact UGL, or that UGL might need to contact any member of the administration, is the Coordinator’s responsibility. Event Administrators rely upon the Coordinator to inform the University of potentially disruptive events, to garner legal advice from our Lawyer, and to make arrangements for the organization with the Office of Student Life.
- The Coordinator is also responsible for waivers. Waivers from past games must be held onto for a number of years after they are signed, in the event that legal action is taken against UGL or BSU as a result of UGL’s activities. The Coordinator must also determine when waivers are needed, and obtain them from the Lawyer.
- The Coordinator also communicates with Event Administrators and the Webmaster, acting as the head of the administrative committee. As such, he oversees (passively or actively) all actions the organization makes. He creates new Event Administrators as necessary, and oversees elections.



Coordinator Application: Emergency Term
1. Why are you interested in being UGL’s Coordinator?
2. What prior experience do you have that you believe qualifies you for this position?
3. If you are elected, what are your plans for the organization?
4. How often do you visit the forums?
5. In your own words, what is the purpose of UGL?
6. Currently, UGL lies dormant most of the year. What new games and events will you bring to UGL to keep UGL active through the year?

REPLY TO TOPIC TO APPLY

1. Why are you interested in being UGL’s Coordinator?

I have toyed with the idea of becoming the Coordinator for some time now, partly for the sake of having something good to put on a resume, but mostly because, I have had a great many ideas to take the UGL organization to a new level of recognition on not only this campus, but across the nation. I do not intend to sell a platform of “change” for the sake of changing things, but I do have ideas that will seek to not only prolong the continuation of this organization, but also improve its capabilities to improve game play for our ever-evolving tastes.

2. What prior experience do you have that you believe qualifies you for this position?

I am a firm believer in the idea that if everything seems to be going well, you obviously don’t have a clue what is going on. That said, I have led and organized many small groups throughout my time at Ball State University, and even before in my High school years. Do I think that qualifies me to manage an organization of 250+ members? No. However, each small experience contributes a skill that will aid me in my job as Coordinator, and I am currently taking multiple classes in management, leadership, and ethics that will certainly provide tools and skills to point me in the right direction.

3. If you are elected, what are your plans for the organization?

As I stated earlier, my goal is not to change things just for the sake of “change” itself. I do not believe that is necessary or desired. However, I do believe that there are things that need to be changed to better organize the collection of games within our organization, and small changes to the structure that will hopefully allow us to progress further into the future.

I aim to instate a monthly staff meeting, for all elected and appointed officers, because I believe that it will improve the stability of our working relationships with each other. I don’t believe meetings should happen on a basis of whether there is business that warrants a physical gathering, but that business should be brought to a meeting that happens regardless. I have seen so many good ideas in this organization go to waste because there is no deadline for thoughts on the forum, no mandate of action. We as officers and staff have thus far hidden behind digital mediums in the hope that someone else will do what needs to be done for us, delighting in the lack of accountability for ideas that do not turn into action. I feel that a periodical meeting would streamline coherence within the organization, and facilitate progress for things that otherwise would have died on the unread threads of the forums.

Among ideas that have been talked about many a time, but never carried out, is the idea of raising funds through outside means. As of yet, no one has actually achieved a sponsorship for this organization. Many people may say that funding is not important, that games are cheap and administrators always have deep pockets to pay for what comes with the territory. Despite that belief, many administrators are not unlike the players; we are all broke college students with bills to pay and debtors to appease, and those of us who have put up vast amounts of money for things in the past will not be here forever. Yes, even Pietre will eventually leave the university, and then what? Who among the players will be willing to front $1000 for an event? On principle, we do not and will never charge the players to play HvZ, CtF, or Dagorhir. But as the organization grows larger, we cannot hope to sustain that growth on the middling donations that we receive from the few players who are able to help. I feel that fundraising needs to become a priority, and soon.

I have always felt that recognition for our organization has always been lacking on this campus. Many students know us as “that zombie game” and nothing else. The problem is that UGL has become so much more than that, and I believe that it is time to show the students and faculty of this campus that we really do have something to offer to everyone. So why should we keep it to ourselves? Some time ago, I commissioned a logo to be designed to showcase what UGL is, and with your votes and a little help from the above paragraph (read: funding) I hope to start an advertisement campaign that will sweep campus once a semester, to let people know that we are here and we are ready to play. And I am not just talking a few monochromatic flyers taped here and there, lost in the rabble of other ads screaming to be ignored by all passersby. I intend to initiate full color, full-scale marketing to a degree of unprecedented proportions. No longer will the average student be able to ask “UGL? What’s that?” but from the top of the stadium, to the bottom of the south bus stop, they will KNOW who we are.

For the sake of brevity, (or what is left of its vestiges) I will end this response here. But know that this is just the beginning.

4. How often do you visit the forums?

Given my status as the second most prolific poster, after the founder of the forums, I can testify that I will be on daily, bare minimum, and always be on hand to address the needs of the players, whenever such needs arise.

5. In your own words, what is the purpose of UGL?
I believe that this organization was founded on the principle of fun, and the kind of fun that cannot be experienced from behind a keyboard, or game controller. I maintain that this organization’s primary goals should be in the facilitation of events that bring together groups of people from all walks of life, to participate in events that create friendships in an environment that promotes stress relief.
I personally have installed a rule number two, to go along with rule number one: “If you aren’t having fun, you’re doing it wrong”. I want to ensure this as the main reason that we are here, because in my mind, that is the only reason an organization like this SHOULD exist.

6. Currently, UGL lies dormant most of the year. What new games and events will you bring to UGL to keep UGL active through the year?

I have been toiling laboriously to ensure that exactly this is no longer the case. My hope is to bring further awareness to games like Dagorhir and Foursquare, which meet bi-weekly all year, and Capture the Flag’s die-hard policy of having a game every possible Friday, no matter what the weather has to say about it. In addition, I would like to facilitate the creation and upstart of new games, designed to work behind the scenes, and fit right into peoples’ undoubtedly busy schedules. Games I want to see will include Assassins, in whatever form, or the ARG that so many people were so intrigued by in its debut, as well as new games, like Grif-ball, Ninja-ball, Battle Royal and E$CAPE, which hope to see betas this spring. I also want to see to fruition events that pull new people into the organization, to expand our reaches to other parts of campus, to groups of people that are still unaware of the enjoyment that we can offer them. Events like tournaments, family-fun-days, cook-outs, and more. There is a wide range of untapped potential in this organization, and it is my personal goal to see it mined, refined, primed and combined to see what amazing things happen in the coming years.