{"id":6676,"date":"2024-10-06T10:32:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T15:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2024-10-06T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T15:32:41","slug":"guy-at-rso-fair-uncomfortably-eager-for-you-to-join-his-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/06\/guy-at-rso-fair-uncomfortably-eager-for-you-to-join-his-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy at RSO Fair Uncomfortably Eager for You to Join His Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">George Christensen, a fourth- year tabling at this year\u2019s RSO fair, displayed a startling and frankly embarrassing desperation for first-years to join his club.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christensen, the president of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Shadowy Trader, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a campus satirical newspaper,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">could be seen walking around the fair, engaging new students in animated conversation and entreating them to input their contact information into his Google Form. In a particularly egregious faux-pas, he emphasized that the club was easy to join and open to everybody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWho wants to be part of a club that\u2019s easy to join?\u201d asked third-year Wesley Chang, the president of Money Money Money Money Money Money Money, a finance club on campus. \u201cThe whole point of a club is exclusivity and difficulty of access. For my RSO, we have a written application, two rounds of interviews, and at the end we put you in a dark room and beat you with a sack of grapefruits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First-years at the fair agreed that a club which appeared too desperate for new members was not an attractive prospect. \u201cWhenever I see a club that\u2019s too welcoming, I assume that they\u2019re all a bunch of dorks,\u201d said first-year Annika Meyer. \u201cI heard that at the acapella auditions they do stuff to you that violates the Geneva Conventions. Now that\u2019s a club I want to be a part of.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the end of the fair, even Christensen expressed some regret for his attitude during the fair: \u201cI guess I came on a little strong. I should have been like those super cool people at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chicago Shady Dealer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who are welcoming but not in a weird way and hold weekly meetings at Harper 145 every Sunday at 7pm. Follow them on Instagram @chicagoshadydealer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-years at the fair agreed that a club which appeared too desperate for new members was not an attractive prospect. \u201cWhenever I see a club that\u2019s too welcoming, I assume that they\u2019re all a bunch of dorks,\u201d said first-year Annika Meyer. \u201cI heard that at the acapella auditions they do stuff to you that violates the Geneva Conventions. Now that\u2019s a club I want to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":6677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}