Swing Dancing, Sala, Lesson 8:00

[Ken T Takusagawa]

Nina and Dan will teach a Lindy Hop lesson at 8:00.

* MIT Lindy Hop Society Wednesday night dance
* La Sala de Puerto Rico (MIT Student Center 2nd floor)
* Wednesday, February 27, Lesson 8:00, Dancing 9:00-11:30 p.m.
* Free, Beginners welcome, No partner necessary
* DJs Alex Abdoulaev and Isaac Marx

At 8:00 p.m. before the dance, Nina and Dan will teach a 
Lindy Hop class: "It's Beginner Lindy Hop time!  All are 
welcome.  Classes will cover some basic Lindy "vocab" (i.e. 
moves) and the Lindy "grammar" (i.e. technique, connection, 
etc.) you'll need to use that "vocab" (i.e. dance).  And we 
promise there will be games at some point during the 
month... (mysterious chuckle)".

Next week (March 5), the dance will be at Harvard.  Stay 
tuned for the location.
 
In MARCH: Andrew "Barack" K. Stein will be teaching a
beginner swing series.  He asked me to pass along this
message:
    It was a creed written into the club's constitution that
    declared the destiny of the Lindy Hop Society.
    Yes we can.
    It was sung by undergrad and graduate students as they
    spun around the dance floor.
    Yes we can.
    We have been told by a chorus of cynics we couldn't
    learn to swing in a lesson or two.  That is was too
    hard, too different, too new.  We have been warned
    against offering the Boston swing scene false hope.  But
    in the unlikely story of The MIT Lindy Hop Society,
    there has never been anything false about hope.
    Yes we can to rhythm and music.
    Yes we can to looking good and feeling awesome.
    Yes we can dance well.
    We are one society, and together we will begin the next
    great chapter in the MIT swing story with three words
    that will ring from Vassar to Memorial; from the Mass
    Ave Bridge to the one that kind of looks like it has a
    salt and pepper shaker on it--
    Yes. We. Can.
Andrew's first lesson will be next week at Harvard, and the 
following two weeks will be at MIT.

Saturday, March 22: A blues dance workshop with Mihai and 
Campbell from San Francisco, also featuring local 
instructors Ogden and Amanda.  Lobdell Dining Hall, MIT 
Student Center
11-12:30 Fundamentals/December Review (Mihai) 
1:30-3 Intermediate Class: What I Learned About Blues From Tango (Mihai) 
3:30-5 Intermediate Class: Interactive Blues (Ogden and Amanda) 
5:30-7 Intermediate/Advanced Class: Transitions and Pauses (Mihai)
  http://mit.edu/swing/easter_blues/

Register here:
  http://www.eventbrite.com/event/94330144 
MIT students may "Enter Discount Code" of "MIT" for a 50% 
discount (and register with your @mit.edu e-mail address).  

And May 23-26: The Boston IndepenDANCE eXchange (BIX).  The 
MIT Lindy Hop Society will host the closing dance on 
Memorial Day, Monday, May 26, 2008.
 http://freedomofdance.com/

--ken

P.S.:

Friday, February 29. Zoot Suit Ball, hosted by the Brown 
University Swing Club and Ballroom Dance Club, 
8:00pm - 12:00 midnight, Alumnae Ballroom, 194 Meeting Street, 
Providence, RI 02912, Free!
  http://brown.edu/Students/Swing_Club/news.html

Friday March 7: Grand, Grand, Union Black & White party 
(Scooby after dark2).  9pm-midnight.  Third Life Studio, 33 
Union Square (Somerville Ave) Somerville, MA 
  http://mit.facebook.com/event.php?eid=12533446022


And finally, all MIT student groups are required to distribute a copy
of these laws to their members (see Section 19).

   THE GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS
   PART IV. CRIMES, PUNISHMENTS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES
   TITLE I. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
   CHAPTER 269. CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE
   TAMPERING WITH IDENTIFYING NUMBERS OF CERTAIN FIREARMS
   Chapter 269: Section 17. Hazing; organizing or participating; hazing
   defined
   
   Section 17. Whoever is a principal organizer or participant in the
   crime of hazing, as defined herein, shall be punished by a fine of not
   more than three thousand dollars or by imprisonment in a house of
   correction for not more than one year, or both such fine and
   imprisonment.
   
   The term "hazing" as used in this section and in sections
   eighteen and nineteen, shall mean any conduct or method of initiation
   into any student organization, whether on public or private property,
   which wilfully or recklessly endangers the physical or mental health
   of any student or other person. Such conduct shall include whipping,
   beating, branding, forced calisthenics, exposure to the weather,
   forced consumption of any food, liquor, beverage, drug or other
   substance, or any other brutal treatment or forced physical activity
   which is likely to adversely affect the physical health or safety of
   any such student or other person, or which subjects such student or
   other person to extreme mental stress, including extended deprivation
   of sleep or rest or extended isolation.
   
   Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section to the contrary,
   consent shall not be available as a defense to any prosecution under
   this action.


   Chapter 269: Section 18. Failure to report hazing
   
   Section 18. Whoever knows that another person is the victim of hazing
   as defined in section seventeen and is at the scene of such crime
   shall, to the extent that such person can do so without danger or
   peril to himself or others, report such crime to an appropriate law
   enforcement official as soon as reasonably practicable. Whoever fails
   to report such crime shall be punished by a fine of not more than one
   thousand dollars.


   Chapter 269: Section 19. Copy of Secs. 17 to 19; issuance to students
   and student groups, teams and organizations; report
   
   Section 19. Each institution of secondary education and each public
   and private institution of post secondary education shall issue to
   every student group, student team or student organization which is
   part of such institution or is recognized by the institution or
   permitted by the institution to use its name or facilities or is known
   by the institution to exist as an unaffiliated student group, student
   team or student organization, a copy of this section and sections
   seventeen and eighteen; provided, however, that an institution's
   compliance with this section's requirements that an institution
   issue copies of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen to
   unaffiliated student groups, teams or organizations shall not
   constitute evidence of the institution's recognition or
   endorsement of said unaffiliated student groups, teams or
   organizations.
   
   Each such group, team or organization shall distribute a copy of this
   section and sections seventeen and eighteen to each of its members,
   plebes, pledges or applicants for membership. It shall be the duty of
   each such group, team or organization, acting through its designated
   officer, to deliver annually, to the institution an attested
   acknowledgement stating that such group, team or organization has
   received a copy of this section and said sections seventeen and
   eighteen, that each of its members, plebes, pledges, or applicants has
   received a copy of sections seventeen and eighteen, and that such
   group, team or organization understands and agrees to comply with the
   provisions of this section and sections seventeen and eighteen.
   
   Each institution of secondary education and each public or private
   institution of post secondary education shall, at least annually,
   before or at the start of enrollment, deliver to each person who
   enrolls as a full time student in such institution a copy of this
   section and sections seventeen and eighteen.
   
   Each institution of secondary education and each public or private
   institution of post secondary education shall file, at least annually,
   a report with the board of higher education and in the case of
   secondary institutions, the board of education, certifying that such
   institution has complied with its responsibility to inform student
   groups, teams or organizations and to notify each full time student
   enrolled by it of the provisions of this section and sections
   seventeen and eighteen and also certifying that said institution has
   adopted a disciplinary policy with regard to the organizers and
   participants of hazing, and that such policy has been set forth with
   appropriate emphasis in the student handbook or similar means of
   communicating the institution's policies to its students. The
   board of higher education and, in the case of secondary institutions,
   the board of education shall promulgate regulations governing the
   content and frequency of such reports, and shall forthwith report to
   the attorney general any such institution which fails to make such
   report.