Club unification
With the upcoming unification between Johnson and Lyndon, many questions have been up in the air, including whether or not the schools would maintain their separate campus identities. While it has been confirmed that both campuses will still have separate clubs and sports teams, it has not come up in discussions about possibilities for collaboration between JSC clubs and their Lyndon counterparts. One club with this possibility is the JSC Pride Alliance, working with the LSC Spectrum Alliance.
Chantel Haslam, president of JSC Pride Alliance, expressed interest at the possibility of collaborating with LSC in event planning and community service opportunities. “They’re all really nice people and they have a lot of good ideas,” she said. “It’s a really pleasant Pride Alliance. I’m excited about what a collaboration between us could come to.”
The secretary of LSC Spectrum Alliance, Danni Foley, was also intrigued by the potential of the unification to aid clubs in working together in the future. She explained how the unification may help the clubs overcome obstacles they have faced when trying to collaborate in the past: “The issue we had in the past was most definitely the break schedule being different. Every time we tried to schedule a hangout, the other would be on break or during finals. I think the unification would aid us in having the breaks be the same.”
Haslam pointed out that a shared administration would most likely make it easier to plan and maneuver around events. She also is curious about how the unification can broaden club horizons, not just for the Pride Alliances but for the other corresponding clubs on both campuses.
It appears that in the case of JSC and LSC Pride Alliances, their officers see unification as an interesting possibility for clubs on both campuses to work together efficiently. Whether or not this will be the case remains to be seen.