# What exactly is a high-school "audiovisual club"?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 20, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-high-school-audiovisual-club/486720 "2009-02-20T14:49:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-high-school-audiovisual-club/486720/21 "2009-02-20T18:40:05Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> in other words, collaborators who have sold out to The Man in exchange for a few crumbs of liberty and status!

All that much easier to subvert from within.

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**Author:** ![Strangelove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-high-school-audiovisual-club/486720/22 "2009-02-20T18:58:51Z")

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> [@Icerigger](#):
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> When I was in 7th grade there was no club just people, (always guys) would run the AV equipment.

I just want to state for the record that there were a few of us females in the AV club. 🙂 Sure fire way to not get dates though. Surrounding yourself with nerdy, shy guys gets you a lot of guy friends, but very few romantic suitors.

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**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-high-school-audiovisual-club/486720/23 "2009-02-21T04:09:54Z")

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> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> Don’t they have to be in class, though? I never understood this, when I was watching “Freaks and Geeks,” how they were able to spend so much time in AV club.

Well, movies of course don’t QUITE reflect reality! But if I recall correctly from the distant mists of time, if you were in AV Club you spent one period (or more, depending on study halls and free periods and lunch) a day in the AV Command Center in the library to handle whatever media requests were scheduled for that period. Then you went to math, or chemistry and some other AV kids came in for the next period.

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