[Acm-announce] ACM Suspension

[Walter Dworak]

For clarity since this has come up, this does NOT affect Reflections 
Projections. SAFC and campus programs are not involved with that even in 
any capacity.
On 09/06/12 11:48, Tom Phillips wrote:
>
> I'm going to try to keep this brief, but the officers felt you all 
> have to know. As of August 17^th , the ACM is suspended as a student 
> organization. It looks like this will hold until December 5^th , 
> pending a payment to a company we owe money to from last year's 
> Flourish! as well.  As far as I understand the situation, we had an 
> agreement with SAFC to pay this company through certain means, those 
> means of payment never happened, the company sent an invoice to SAFC 
> using old contact information from the account they previously had on 
> their file, and SAFC were not happy about it. Pretty much we are 
> working to pay the company out of our own pockets (SAFC refuses to pay 
> now), which we had full intention of paying the company in the first 
> place.
>
> By now must be asking yourself, what does this mean for me? The main 
> thing that is changing is that we cannot participate in Student 
> Organization hosted events, hence why we did not have a table 
> yesterday at the Fun Fair (it's okay though, we dressed Collin in the 
> penguin suit and sent him off to hand out fliers and OpenSUSE disks, 
> we don't need a silly table). My main concern is how this will affect 
> Flourish! this year, which it shouldn't, we are moving it back under 
> LUG and they will be handling it. This won't affect your membership 
> status with us, nor anything server related with us. We aren't losing 
> our office and will still be holding meetings regularly.
>
> If you have any concerns feel free to stop by the office, we are 
> working to shorten the suspension, but Campus Programs isn't being 
> very cooperative about the situation. If there are any major updates, 
> we will announce it.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> To UNSUBSCRIBE from the listserv, send a message to listserv at uic.edu 
> with SIGNOFF ACM in the message body.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Acm-announce mailing list
> Acm-announce at acm.cs.uic.edu
> https://acm.cs.uic.edu/mailman/listinfo/acm-announce
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> To UNSUBSCRIBE from the listserv, send a message to
> listserv at uic.edu with SIGNOFF ACM in the message body.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://acm.cs.uic.edu/pipermail/acm-announce/attachments/20120906/0131eca4/attachment.html>