History
The three residential buildings in the Collins LLC.
What are Edmondson, Cravens, and Hillcrest?
In order to use most of Collins facilities, you must first do this. It requires you to make an appointment with the coordinator of that studio/facility and spend some time learning how to do it.
What is getting trained?
The Collins publication that is put out weekly, available on the Free Table by the Ed Front Desk.
What is the Collins Columns?
This council deals with space requests, events that are gathering-oriented, and this council can give out funding for these events.
What is Community Council (CC)?
This is where you'll get all the forms and logistical things you'll ever need to put on events at Collins.
What is the Duty Office?
This is the name of the group of Collins buildings before it was Collins.
What is the MRC (Men's Recreation Center)?
This is the building that houses the Clubhouse (cinema, textiles studio, painting & printmaking studio, etc).
What is Hillcrest?
The three annual Collins publications. There is always a release party for these at the end of the year!
What are The Lantern, The Pipe & The Barrow, and The Dancing Star?
This student group is in charge of organizing the educational programs through Collins, like the seminars and any educational guest speakers that visit.
What is the Board of Educational Programming (BOEP)?
This break is when your Q Project is due!
What is Thanksgiving Break?
The number of Little 500 trophies has Collins won
What is 3 (but they were all won before Collins was Collins- 1951-1953!)
These are the five pillars of Collins.
What are diversity, sustainability, arts&humanities, philanthropy and community?
This is the news update that is sent via email.
What is the Gnome News?
This group is application-only, but open to all Collinsites. They meet biweekly on Tuesdays at 1pm and often throw environment-related events.
What is SustainCollins?
This organization started as a Q-Project! It is still around today and services as a late-night hangout/homework spot for Collinsites.
What is the Cheshire Cafe?
The year that the LLC was changed from its previous name to Collins LLC.
What is 1972?
There are three stained glass images of this fictional creature in the entryway of Edmondson that serve as our mascot.
What is a gnome?
This is the longest standing publication at Collins.
What is the Dancing Star?
These are the four events that BOP (Board of Programmers) puts on every year!
What are the Dickens Dinner, Viennese Ball, Halloween Party, and CollinsFest?
This is the course that future Q Instructors take before teaching Q199. (Sign up is available Spring semester of your Sophomore year!)
What is Q299?
This is the man after whom Collins LLC is named.
Who is Ralph L. Collins?
This person is in charge of the day-to-day happenings at Collins. Her office is in the Ed basement and she also sometimes teaches a class!
Who is Yara Cluver?
These are the two publications to which you should submit flyers/advertisements for events!
What are the Gnome News and the Collins Columns?
These people are the heads of Arts Council and Community Council respectively.
Who are Yonnie Sapcut and Zoe Bogan?
This is the year that Q199: Residential Learning Workshop (Q-Class) was established.
What is 1976?