Rather than keep repeating all this nonsense on the calendar, I decided it would be easier to sticky this on the message board and link all the meetings. So here's the incredible Vermillion FAQ.

What is it?

Vermillion is the anime club at Carnegie Mellon University, located conveniently (for me) between Oakland and Squirrel Hill on Forbes Avenue. Our chief activity is watching anime. Other events are scheduled intermittently throughout the semester and have included karaoke, cooking lessons, short cultural presentations, and the annual Tekkoshocon hotel room.

I don't go to CMU.

That's okay, neither do I. Although the bulk of the paying members and officers are generally undergraduates, the club has been receptive to graduate students, students from other universities, random people who live nearby, and alumni who run anime meetups and continue to hang around their old university like a creeper.

When does it happen?

The group holds meetings on Saturday evenings from 7 PM to midnight or later. We try to keep the room reserved during breaks and the summer so the club can meet year-round as opposed to just during the fall and spring.

Does it cost money?

If you want, you can just show up and watch for free, but purchasing a club membership confers perks. Paying members are allowed to vote on shows, borrow tapes and DVDs from the (mostly unorganized) club library, download from the club server, and vote on officers. The cost is $6 for the fall and spring semester individual, or $10 for both.

We also order pizza during meetings, and the cost is $5 per person. Then you can eat as much as you want until all the pizza is gone. You WILL eat all the pizza until it is gone.

There is metered parking around campus, although in the evenings, one can park in the Morewood Gardens parking lot or the Gesling Stadium garage for free. So you probably want to park there.

Where is it?

Meetings are held in Margaret Morrison room 103, "Breed Hall." Here's a campus map! The Gesling Stadium garage is P7 and Margaret Morrison Hall is building 14, right next to the tennis courts.

If you enter Margaret Morrison through the door facing the parking garage, you'll find yourself in a long hallway. Go straight down until nearly the end, and turn left just before you reach the water fountain. Breed Hall is straight ahead. If you enter the building from the main entrance on the corner of Margaret Morrison and Tech Street, turn right at the entrance and Breed Hall is straight ahead.

Vending machines and restrooms are one floor down.

Note that if Margaret Morrison Hall is taken by another group, which occasionally happens when the CMU reservation system fails, we normally end up downstairs in room A14. Head down one of the staircases as if you were going to the vending machines, but at the bottom, turn left instead of right. A14 is straight ahead.

What is the format?

During the fall and spring, we have a set schedule of shows. The Scheduler picks a selection of five or six series to preview, hopefully providing a variety of different styles and genres, and paying members cast ballots after two weeks. The winning series will be shown in their entirety until the end of the semester. Extra time will be taken up by scheduled events, shows chosen at the discretion of the Scheduler, and video/children's trading card games. Pizza also happens somewhere in the middle of watching stuff.

During the summer and occasionally throughout the normal academic year (Spring Break, Winter Break, etc.), there are unofficial meetings. These occur because most students are at home or otherwise not on campus and those of us lifeless dorks would rather not punish them by making progress on the official schedule. These meetings operate as Bring Your Own. We collect all the things people brought, have all present vote for what they'd like to watch, and then proceed as usual.

This is great, but I have an awesome idea... can we do X?

Bring it up with the club president or appropriate officer. Naturally during summer this kind of doesn't work, but we do realize that just sitting around watching anime isn't always the best way to get people together to celebrate our hobby... after all, most of us could just as easily be sitting at home watching by ourselves.

Where can I learn more?

Vermillion's website is at http://vermillion.web.... Paying members can use its various features to vote for and download shows. The site also prominently features a message board where most official club banter happens, as well as random discussions, trivia, and linkage. During the fall and spring, the schedule of things we're watching will be displayed on the front page.

And if you still have questions, suggestions, or comments... this is now general Vermillion thread.

This can also double as a general Vermillion thread in case people have questions, suggestions, comments, or anything else.