University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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V , 0 During winter quarter SPACE planned a ski trip to Tahoe for beginners. Junior Michelle Meade joined a bus load of people for o day at Kirkwood. The display case in Benson was used to advertise SPACE events such as High Adventure Month during which students learned to scuba dive, back-pack, deep sea fish, raft and whole watch. SPACE held several tie-dye workshops for students. Sophmore Bryan Flint creates this unique tie-dye at the Reggae Sunsplash in April. Spitzi Ursin n Filling the Void with SPACE 1 5

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FILLING THE VOID WITH SPACE Amy Kremer Students had a chance to show off their talent during SPACE ' S Stiow-Off . Freshman Dan Quinn made up part of the group The Stoirs, who won their preliminary round. Winners of each of the four preliminary shows went on to compete for a $500. scholarship. D It mokes me so excited I could bite my toes, so frustrated I could pull out my hair, ar d so fulfilled I could start over again. How else to explain the otherwise inexplicable. It ' s Students Programing Alternative Campus Events, aka SPACE. It ' s the Reggae Sunsplash, Comedy Sports and the annual Golf Tourna- ment. It ' s the Animated Film Series, the Santa Clara Show Off and the Tie-Dye Workshop. More than that, though, it ' s a Revolution for the silent majority so that they hove options for entertain- ment, enrichment and education. I opened my letter of congratula- tions lost spring and practically wet my pants. Publicity Coordinator, Yeah I I could make displays, flyers, banners and all kinds of great stuff. All these little projects going from my fingertips into entire advertising campaigns, how much better could it get? And the moment it comes together, I stand there like a proud mother, knowing how hard it was to get there. In preparation for SPACE ' S second year, all the local Executive Board members spent summer days scuttling around Benson Center like mice. I found myself coming in at all hours trying to finalize projects, create a filing system, organize supplies for our new office and all those other things that hod to be done. And through all this I made my bestest friencl- my Macintosh Computer. When the year began, we got a new office space behind the Info Booth. We didn ' t have cubicles any- more; we had real walls and doors and everything. As you walk through the door, you ' ve entered the meeting room with donated tie-dyed sheets deco- rating the walls and couches for lounging. Anyone wanting to get to the office (where a large bog of chee- tos never survives over 24 hours) has some fancy footwork ahead because something is always being put to- gether in the middle of the floor or spilled on the carpet. We had a great group of people, and things were peachy-keen until we scheduled 60 to 70 events to take place during Fall Quarter. With only six board members and a few key, shoulder-to-the-grindstone volunteers, can you soy physically impossible? Programming (or planning) an event takes organization and lots of time. It begins months before the event. After an idea is brainstormed and sched- uled, we have to worry about reserv- ing facilities, contacting performers and companies, negotiating con- tracts, advertising, sign-ups, ticket sales, co-sponsoring, check requests and the list goes on. SPACE people usually aren ' t in the limelight and volunteers often belong to many other organizations around campus. But we hove our highlights. When you tell someone you ' re in SPACE, they always soy, Space, the final frontier. But there is so much more to SPACE. D BY TINA JOHNSON 14 student Life

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16 student Life Amy Kremer