As the world pushes into the future, with technological advancements every day, humans fear a future impending doom of machines taking all the jobs and humans will end up like the people in Wall-E. A current advancement is the automatic writing app called ChatGPT. This AI-generated writing app takes any prompt you ask it and spits out anything from a three-page paper, study guides, and even articles. It’s been a recent popular topic on TikTok, as everyone from teachers to writers testing out ChatGPT’s abilities. The Criterion, wanting to join in on the trend, put an AI against one of our staff writers. Using the same interview, our staff writer Edwin Francia went up against ChatGPT to write an article about Colorado Mesa University Club Advisory Board (CAB).
Edwin:
Club Advisory Board (CAB) serves as a resource center for students at the university. As the organization responsible for the creation of new clubs and the allocation of funds.
CAB ensures that students have a wide range of opportunities to get involved on campus. CAB offers a jump-start fund of $50 for students who want to start their own club, as well as resources for event planning, advertising, and travel arrangements.
“The Club Advisory Board is here to help students start and run their clubs, offering assistance with creating a constitution, securing members, planning events, managing budgets, and using our Presence application. Help is available through email or in-person at the office, with either me or a member of the CAB during office hours,” says Isabel Manzanares, Student Life Operations Manager, and CAB Advisor.
CAB also offers assistance with fundraising. According to Manzanares, the organization can help with restaurant fundraising and even provides an in-house fundraising opportunity through the “Stall Street Journal”.
“We give them a certain amount to go around campus and hang up the Street Journals for that new month, and then Mavrides is also a great fundraising tool for clubs that happens every weekend, Thursday through Saturday,” Manzanares said.
CAB works closely with club members and meets with them on a weekly basis. The organization recently welcomed a new director, Nathaniel Onza, who was the financial advisor for CAB last semester. According to Manzanares, Onza has been doing a great job in bringing the team together and making changes to make CAB more organized and accessible to students.
In conclusion, CAB is a valuable resource for students looking to get involved on campus. With resources for club creation, event planning, advertising, and fundraising, CAB helps ensure that students have a wide range of opportunities to get involved in campus life.
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As we return to a new semester, Student Life, along with the Club Advisory Board (CAB), have recently started implementing new plans to help clubs and be a resource for fundraising help.
With 200+ clubs on campus, Student Life and CAB are dedicated to helping all of them to the best of their ability. CAB recently appointed Nathaniel Ansah as the new Director.
“He was [previously] the financial advisor for CAB last semester, and he’s just really positive. He’s gotten the team together and is really on top of everything. We’re trying to change CAB a little bit and just be more organized and be there more for the students,” Student Life Operations Manager and advisor for CAB Isabel Manzanares said.
The upcoming CAB Club training is an example of what CAB does on campus for clubs. This Feb. there will be three training sessions talking about a wide range of subjects such as how to start a club, put on events and host fundraising.
Fundraising can be quite difficult for clubs as they are given a starting budget of $50 from CAB. Next, clubs will need to fundraise on their own. This can be done in numerous ways.
“When [clubs] come in and ask about fundraising, we tell them to [ask] a restaurant such as Qudoba or Buffalo Wild Wings [to help with] fundraising. We also have our own fundraising here on campus with the StallStreet Journal’s and Mavrides. We’re hoping to get more clubs driving, because it’s a really great fundraising opportunity for them,” Manzanares said.
On top of fundraising, CAB helps clubs promote their events through flyers, and a new strategy of sending a weekly CAB email including upcoming club events and CAB events.
Student Life and CAB are working hard to make sure every club meets their goals and be a resource for them when they need it.
Clubs are what bring CMU closer together and it allows students to find others with similar interests and develop new ones.
