you see, events at my campus are free. we have a sizable endowment and a student body of only around 400. we charged back in the day for stuff, but stopped years ago for some reason. and trust me, if something isn't free people here won't go to it.
one idea we came up with is a "Techie Girls of Simon's Rock[my college's name]" calendar (and possibly a "Techie Guys of Simon's Rock") that we would sell for about 5 bucks.
i really want to host concerts at my school, but the Student Life dept. schedules those and they never ask us for use of our facilities. i think if we started getting some names into our
theatre, people would be more apt to come.
the problem is my school since it's first year in 1966 has been a liberal arts school, with a nice emphasis on the performing arts (far from a conservatory, but we had a good, solid program. a few years ago we got a new president, ever since then arts and creative persuits have been on the decline here. she (the new prez) wants to turn this place into more of a humanities school; not an arts school. we've gotten progressively less money from the school since her appointment; so asking help from the administration has gotten us no where. i've tried everything, and now i and a few of my close friends are resorting to being aggressive about it when we have meetings with administrators concerning our education (which we have semi-frequently, my school takes a hands on approach to each student). we're also going to subvert the money flow and directly raise money to add to our own budget that the school gives us every fall and spring.