DAGGER Election Results

The DAGGER officers for the 2010-2011 school year are:

President: Kelly Williams (kelly.williams)
Vice President: Tina Del Carpio (tina.delcarpio)
Librarian: Amanda Yu (amanda.yu)
Advertising Chair: Megan Heysham (megan.heysham)
Treasurer: Chris Kizer (chris.kizer)
Riddler*: Misha Lavrov (misha.lavrov)

All email addresses are @duke.edu, if you would like to contact any of the new officers about things you would like to see in DAGGER next year.

*Riddler is a new position this year. Misha will be organizing Puzzlehunt. If you are interested in helping with this, you should contact him.

April 27th: Return of the New Games

For our final meeting of the semester, this week we played more of the new games in the DAGGER collection. After elections were finished, we played foxes and bears in Tally Ho!, built trains in Express, built civilizations in Roll Through the Ages, and fenced some more in En Garde. There were also nymphs in Bacchus, confusion in The Club, and foreign currency in Money.

That's it for DAGGER until August, but we hope to see you then! Good luck to everyone on finals and have a great summer!

New Games Night - April 20

Last night at DAGGER, we pulled out the new games, unwrapped boxes and cards, punched out pieces, read through unfamiliar rules, and celebrated the recent expansion of the DAGGER library.

We collected evidence in Looting London, mined in Incan Gold, and fenced in En Garde. We collected bugs for points in Swat, matched birds in Birds on a Wire, and built lines of matching color in Take it Easy*. We also played Roll Through the Ages, Oregon, 2 de Mayo, and Master's Gallery.

There may have been more that I missed. It was that eventful of a night, with a whole bunch of great new games.

*This song will now be stuck in my head forever.

The Rest of the Semester

Only two Tuesdays left in the semester, and you know what that means. DAGGER is wrapping up for the 2009-2010 school year.

Join us this Tuesday, April 20, to help us play all of our newly acquired games from Funagain Games and FRED Distribution! (Read more here). We'll also have some newer games that have yet to make it to DAGGER. We'll be in Soc Sci 105 at 8:30PM.

Next Tuesday will be our last meeting of the semester, and we will be holding elections. If you want to run for any position now is the time to start thinking about it. Later this week we will send out a description of all the positions to give you a better sense of what each of us is responsible for. In the mean time if you have questions about positions feel free to email any of the officers:

President: Tina Del Carpio (tina.delcarpio)

Treasurer: Chris Kizer (chris.kizer)

Librarian: Lisa Gutermuth (lisa.gutermuth)

Publicist: Megan Heysham (megan.heysham)

(All email addresses are @duke.edu)

Hope to see you tomorrow night, and good luck with all your projects/papers/tests!

DAGGER Growth

At the end of the 2008-2009 school year, the DAGGER library consisted of 6 games. Many of the games found at weekly meetings were personal property of DAGGER members. Recently, this has changed drastically. After 3 separate donations to DAGGER, our library now stands strong at over 60 games.

This Thursday, DAGGER received two boxes, weighing a total of 68 pounds, and containing approximately 30 new games.

While not all of the games in this picture belong to DAGGER (some are property of our librarian) a nearly 1000% increase in DAGGER-owned games is something we are greatly appreciating! (Please note that not all games are visible, as there are 3 layers.)

P.S. We have learned that the games are from Funagain Games and FRED Distribution. We applied for a grant earlier this semester and they decided to give us even more than we had applied for in the form of a starter library. We would like to thank them for their amazing contribution.

Fear Not, We Will Return

Your DAGGER officers would like to apologize for the recent lack of activity. Tests, projects, and sickness have unfortunately kept us from holding meetings for the past couple weeks. We hope to return to our regularly scheduled meeting time this week. We would also like to remind you that if you have any ideas for a theme you would like to see at DAGGER, you can either comment here or send an email to our president, Tina, at christina.delcarpio@duke.edu.