Dave -- I wish I had gotten a chance to talk to you at regionals this past weekend, but y'all were obviously in the other bracket. I wouldn't say Arkansas is a great program, but we are fairly active and generally do pretty well whenever someone with the last name Wehrman is involved. Granted we had some help from their parents, but basically we built our program totally outside the control of our union. Our rep_s_ which change every year, have no interest whatsoever in anything beyond CBI and very little in that... the year we got second at CBI nationals, they almost canceled the trip because only three people could go. So anyway, there is no need to have a person in the union to help you, necessarily. You can create a student club or RSO or whatever they call it and, in most cases, appeal directly to the student government for funds. You probably won't get much, but if you have enough for one tourney and some pizza to attract people to your first few meetings you can get started. After that, the best way to get some more money is to run a high school tournament. You can do this through NAQT (with them obviously sharing the profits) or you can write the questions yourself, if you have the people/time. I know I am rambling, but my main point is that it is possible to build a resonably good, traveling club without much school support. Dargan
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