This is going to be a little brief as its Thanksgiving and all.

438 people attempted at least part of the survey. 87 of you either can't read, or attempted to circumvent the survey method. By which I mean, you voted for the same act in more than one position (IE: the fellow who voted for Ween 10 times). Adjusting for this, and accepting only highest ranking an act was given by any one respondent we have:

Music ( Top 11):

Act                    Raw Votes     Score
!!BLANK VOTE!!         724           3065
BREAKING BENJAMIN *    92            705
FLOGGING MOLLY *       92            669
DROPKICK MURPHYS *     85            516
GUSTER                 69            471
OUR LADY PEACE         81            468
HINDER                 62            408
SHINEDOWN *            64            376
BLOODHOUND GANG        65            370
REEL BIG FISH          62            361

Comedy (Top 11):

Act                    Raw Votes     Score
!!BLANK VOTE!!         1575          7379
WEIRD AL YANKOVIC      183           1327
BOB SAGET              173           1275
DAVE ATTELL            127           824
STEPHEN LYNCH          113           795
COLIN MOCHRIE          106           756
ANDY DICK              94            584
JIM GAFFIGAN           72            543
CHARLIE MURPHY         69            466
NORM  MC DONALD        76            406

Full rankings are in this file.

The raw raw vote counts are based on the number of people that selected a given act at any position in the survey.

Scoring is based on the number of votes received at each poll position times the value of that position. Meaning that selecting an act as your top choice gave that act 10 points, as your second best choice 9 and so on down to 1 point.

It is important to note that a large number of people failed to vote for any band or comedian, or failed to fill in all of the slots, which is what "!!BLANK VOTE!!" indicates.

Based on the acts you selected above, would you rather see music or comedy?
Music 320
Comedy 105

For the last several years CUB showed a pre-release movie every week in Cheel Commons, we stopped this year due to poor vendor support, high prices and generally low attendance. Movies are rather expensive (the volume discount is $450/week if we select films for the entire year). Do you agree with the decision to not show movies?
Yes 287
No 139

For the last several years CUB has done drive-in movies during the early part of the fall. We stopped doing these movies this year because the screens we were using last year were damaged by wind. We are considering the purchase of a different type of screen to address this issue so that we may hold these movies again this fall. The screens we are looking at are designed for outdoor use and cost between $4,000 and $8,000. Do you think purchasing such a screen is a good investment?
Yes 248
No 174

CUB is considering purchasing a number of tickets to the local cinema each week and providing them to the students free of charge. We envision a lottery, which students could enter at the beginning of each week; students would be allowed to request a limited number of tickets when enrolling in the lottery and the tickets would be made available for pickup afterwards. Obviously the viability of this depends on negotiations with the local cinema. Would you be interested in this?
Yes 288
No 133

Would you prefer the idea above (tickets to the local cinema) to the weekly movies CUB ran in Cheel?
Yes 216
No 206

Would you be interested in Club 99 having a karaoke machine and/or a karaoke night?
Yes 187
No 232

The comments are available here.

All of the raw data, as well as the scripts used to process it, their output and everything else used for this survey are available here. Be sure to check out the readme so that you know what the files mean.

If you find any issues with the method by which we computed the results, problems with the processing script, etc, please let us know.

Where do we go from here?
We'll look over these results, discuss them at our next meeting (which is Monday, at 6pm in Cheel Barben Room A) and then discuss them with our booking agent. With all that done we'll select an act to bid, get it approved by insurance and submit the bid. Of course the blog will be updated as more information is available.

Thanks for your help!