Hip-Hop Dance Club Seeks to Increase Membership

tudents have recently begun meeting in attempts to put together a hip-hop dance club.

Outside of Fullerton College's normal dance class offerings, there is a small group of people devoted wholly to the modern style of hip-hop dancing.

The group meets Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons. "We need people," said Josh Lin, the president of the hip-hop dance club. As the president, he took the initiative to start promoting.

So far, only four or five people show up to their meetings, but their lack of membership does not stop the club from having a great time and doing what they love to do-dance.

Lin, an international student of two-and-a-half years, danced at his home school in Taiwan with a group called, "Hyper Rush Crew."

He learned from professionals and continued to dance until he came to school in America. "I just studied too much, so I didn't have any time," Lin said.

Now, his schedule is different and he plans to devote more time and effort to dancing and building up his new dance club. "Next spring we may start putting together some choreography routines," Lin said, "but this semester we're just getting together, having a good time and dancing."While the regular hip-hop club attendees get together to have fun and hang out, they also share an affinity for the art of hip-hop.

In efforts to promote the club, the group had put up posters for a few weeks, with little response.

According to club members, it was most likely because students on campus had already established their semester-routines. "It's hard to get people together all at one time," Lin said. The club has been met with the same challenges as most new school organizations and it has had to deal with all the minor issues of getting underway.

Lin and the rest of the club members are hopeful that with a little more networking and a few more weeks of promotions, their club will begin to see some substantial growth.

With the fall semester ending in slightly over a month, they are hard at work, letting people know about the club and getting them more interested in joining.