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Monday, June 17
The Indiana Daily Student

Clubbin' time

It's college, and you're supposed to meet people. One of the premier ways to achieve this is getting involved in some sort of extracurricular club.\nBut with a campus so big, it is hard not to see some groups getting lost in the shuffle. Therefore, I have decided to help out some of our lesser-known clubs by putting in a blurb for them in this very publication.\nCam Cameron Fan Club\nJunior Stanley Q. Studmuffin founded the fan club last year.\n"We are staunch supporters of Coach's efforts. We'll be behind him 100 percent for each one of the 310 victories it will take him to break Bear Bryant's all-time record," Studmuffin said.\nIn order to join, members of the fan club must pay a seemingly steep fee of $295, which matches Cameron's .295 career winning percentage. \nBut the price does not come without its benefits.\n"The fee is necessary because we use that money to buy 50-yard line tickets at the Rose Bowl," noted Studmuffin.\nWhen asked if he realized that the Rose Bowl would be the site of the national championship game this year rather than hosting the Big 10/Pac 10 champions, Studmuffin replied, "Oh, we're quite aware of that fact."\nStudents for a Dry IU:\nThis club is one of the oldest at IU, actually having been founded in late 1919 as a spin-off of the "IU Students Against the League of Nations" club. \n"We seek to eradicate this campus of the unholy arch-fiend INTEMPERANCE!" stated current president Hortense Peterson.\nThe club held a great deal of clout on campus throughout the middle of the century. But activists burned down the clubhouse in late 1967 and the club members were forced to relocate to Purdue, where their message of studying every Saturday night was much more widely accepted.\nIn the mid-'90s, the club saw a rekindled interest as a result of Indiana's transformation to a dry campus. Last year, the club held 13 members, which was the highest total since the Calvin Coolidge administration.\nAlthough the club is pleased with the smashing success of the dry campus initiative, Peterson still feels that more can be done.\n"Our next big project will involve swooping into the area bars with hatchets and destroying their liquor supply," Peterson said.\nIU Dungeons and Dragons Club\nThe Dungeons and Dragons club has been a successful part of the IU scene since 1983.\n"We feel that everybody can use a little D&D," stated dungeon master Joshua Stewart Hildenlooper. "However, we don't want to give the impression that we are only into D&D -- club members also like to create their own RPG's (Role Playing Games)," continued Hildenlooper.\n"We've also written a script for Star Wars Episode II. It features a new character named Drake Reed who will help Boba Fett kill Jar Jar Binks," Hildenlooper said.\nOne of Hildenlooper's primary goals involves increasing the popularity of Dungeons and Dragons across campus. \n"Ideally, some day we will play at Assembly Hall with cheerleaders and a full stadium, plus groupies on the Dungeons and Dragons team bus," concluded Hildenlooper.

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