By John Le, Photo Manager
This school year, the Associated Student Body (ASB) Club Commissioners, junior Jolynna Dang and junior Rachel Ravsten have implemented a new Inter-Club Council (ICC) rule for all clubs to follow: a strike system.
The “strike” rule will penalize clubs with a strike if that club misses a few meetings, forgets to turn in their minutes or doesn’t follow ICC rules. Upon receiving three strikes, that club can be disbanded for the rest of the school year and the following year. If disbanded, officers in that club cannot form a new club during that down time.
“It’s small, little things, and that accumulates. For example, we had Club Rush, and we would warn them and give them a strike for not really keeping up on all of [their] responsibilities if they didn’t turn in their reflection form, didn’t clean up after the event and haven’t been turning in meeting minutes.”
However, according to ASB Club Commissioners, it is difficult to receive a strike. Clubs must have had multiple infractions or committed severe transgressions to get a strike.
“[If] clubs live up to the expectations of actually being active, it’s hard to get a strike. It’s simple things they have to do to stay active, like do one event a year or do everything they know they’re supposed to do.” said Dang.
According to article AR1230 of the Huntington Beach Union High School District Board Policies and Administrative Regulations, principals and the district superintendent reserve the right to “disaffiliate” from clubs “any time that he/she determines that the organization no longer functions in the best interests of the students, the school or District, or that the organization violates any rule, regulation or policy.”
To comply with those rules, ASB would have to run through the strikes with administration in order to disband the club.
“Well, it’s probably not just ASB doing it. They would look at a case, look over the strikes and see what’s going on. It would probably come to me, and I would probably go to Dr. Skon and Dr. Smith. And then that would be where a club would be disbanded. It would never be only ASB saying no,” said Andrea Atkinson, ASB advisor.
ASB hopes to facilitate more order and a better connection with the many clubs at school with these new rules.
“I think that clubs will be influenced more to stay up to what they’re supposed to do, keep current of all their events, and stay on top of their duties and make sure they’re fulfilling what exactly they want to.” said Ravsten.
