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Most announcements are made during this time, and there are often AMVs and other odds and ends that get shown as well. | Most announcements are made during this time, and there are often AMVs and other odds and ends that get shown as well. | ||
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| + | ==History== | ||
| + | In the early 2000s and for an unknown period before, MnA showed two episodes every hour followed by a 10 minute break until the start of the next hour. | ||
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| + | MnA shifted to a little break/BIG BREAK (5 min/30 min) format experimentally on October 4, 2003: | ||
| + | <pre>Yep, we gave you dinner time. Now you don't have to choose a show to miss | ||
| + | so you can go eat. Also, we hope that with the lights on for a whole | ||
| + | thirty minutes maybe you'll mingle among each other and figure out a plan | ||
| + | to overthrow our current elected officials (El Presidente and me among | ||
| + | other) come spring time and elections and whatnot.</pre> | ||
| + | --[[Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini]] in [[2003-2004_Emails#.5BMnA.5D_Sat.2C_Oct_4_Meeting|that week's member email]] | ||
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| + | While nominally 30 minutes, in practice the BIG BREAK became closer to 40-45, causing meetings to regularly run 10-15 minutes past the official 10pm end time. When the Cal Poly administration cracked down on after-hours silo use in [[2010-2011]], club voted to experimentally move to a 4:30pm start time in [[2011-2012]] resulting in an even bigger hour-long BIG BREAK. The first meeting that tried this was September 24, 2011, and it became permanent a few weeks later when members voted the OK on it. | ||
Latest revision as of 15:25, 22 April 2012
The BIG BREAK, also known as the "Big-Ass Break", is intended to be a time for the members to talk and (maybe) make the club a more social entity.
Most announcements are made during this time, and there are often AMVs and other odds and ends that get shown as well.
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History
In the early 2000s and for an unknown period before, MnA showed two episodes every hour followed by a 10 minute break until the start of the next hour.
MnA shifted to a little break/BIG BREAK (5 min/30 min) format experimentally on October 4, 2003:
Yep, we gave you dinner time. Now you don't have to choose a show to miss so you can go eat. Also, we hope that with the lights on for a whole thirty minutes maybe you'll mingle among each other and figure out a plan to overthrow our current elected officials (El Presidente and me among other) come spring time and elections and whatnot.
--Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini in that week's member email
While nominally 30 minutes, in practice the BIG BREAK became closer to 40-45, causing meetings to regularly run 10-15 minutes past the official 10pm end time. When the Cal Poly administration cracked down on after-hours silo use in 2010-2011, club voted to experimentally move to a 4:30pm start time in 2011-2012 resulting in an even bigger hour-long BIG BREAK. The first meeting that tried this was September 24, 2011, and it became permanent a few weeks later when members voted the OK on it.
