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[Incoming Transmission from Psi Phi, Office of Communications]

Minutes

(09/27/2000)

Call To Order: 10:05 pm

Attendance:

• Joel Oberdieck (Captain)
• Julie Faas (First Officer)
• David Henderson (Chief of Operations)
• Meg Callender (Grand Nagus)
• Kenny Albright (Communications Officer)
• Marisa Bonomo
• Chris Johnson
• Katie Kilby
• Ray Kremer
• Amy Lewis
• Carl Murphy
• Aaron Nevitt
• C. Adam Scott
• Ryan Woodrow
• Eric Zaleski
• Guest: Chris Kaergard

Minutes: Summarized and approved.

• We are meeting in the Reading Lounge again, because the doors to Room 5 are locked again, and Room 6 is occupied by hostile forces.
• The minutes are summarized in possibly the shortest amount of time on record. There is much approval of this.

Committee Reports:

• No report.

• Adam gives the report in a remarkable falsetto, while managing to massacre Handel's Hallelujah Chorus in the process.
• No report, received with applause.

• No report, since Charlie isn't here.
• The movie A Clockwork Orange was seen by a privileged few on Saturday because somebody let us into the Marty Theatre, apparently more out of apathy than overwhelming generosity. Still, the action was much appreciated.

• The First Officer, who is conspicuously absent, had the list of t-shirt slogans, so it appears not much is going to get done with this tonight.
• Unprompted new suggestions are thrown around, such as "Better geek than Greek" and "Science fiction's last, best hope."
• (see postmeeting addendum)

Officers' Reports:

• The minutes are completely caught up to the moment in time at which you are reading these words.
• Adam makes a comment and is deemed wrong by the Comm Officer. This is the second known documented occurrence of Adam being wrong.

• The current balance is $142.09.
• At this point, it is discovered that the group in Room 6 has abandoned their outpost; a mass exodus occurs.
• Several settling-in activities to our rightful homeworld include demands for a show trial with "Kirk! Kirk! Kirk!", and an honorary bottle-throwing by Adam.

• The comic book section has been added to the Psi Phi Book Database; this means more money for us.

• No report, as the First Officer is conspicuously absent.

• This week we have mass quantities of irrelevant mail.
• Mail:
  • A memo and application for money from the SABRC. We do not need money; hence, we shall ignore the message.
  • A flyer for the Bradley Day of Dialogue on Race Relations on October 26th.
  • A letter from the Lewis J. Burger Center for Student Leadership and Public Service; all present share a good laugh.
  • A flyer for a volleyball tournament on October 1st. The Chief reminisces about when Psi Phi had its own elite military volleyball squadron.
  • A flyer for a lecture on grief which, in the true postal tradition, was received by us after the lecture had taken place.
  • Specific disorder ensues, as the mail is passed around, turned into paper airplanes, and flown across the room by various members, with differing degrees of success.

Scifi News:

• David has two prints from Joe's Comics: Rising Stars - Prelude, a reprint of the pilot comic book, and the newest one in the series, Rising Stars #10.
• Star Trek comics now available include #1 - "The Killing Shadows," a TNG mini-spinoff, and the New Frontier comic book "Double Time."
• The Season 7 premiere of Voyager will take place this Wednesday, October 4th, on UPN. They will reshow last season's cliffhanger at 7, followed by the premiere at 8, and then a season 2 rerun at 9.
• Nicole deBoer, DS9's Ezri Dax, was on a recent episode of Jeopardy! as a video clue in the category "SY"ENCE. Dealing with the type of organism her character was on the show, the correct response was "symbiotic."
• Babylon 5 has begun its rerun stint on the Sci Fi Channel. Although the editing has left a bit to be desired, all the episodes are being shown in wide-screen format, which is both cool and quality.
• WYZZ-43 is now running DS9 reruns Tuesday through Saturday at 4:30 A.M., so either get up with the stars or set your VCRs!
• Ryan is hit by bottle artillery for the usual snide remarks.
• In the recent Buffy season premiere, Buffy defeated Dracula, so that answers that question.
• The Roswell season premiere will be Monday at 8 on the WB.

Adjournment: 10:32 pm

Addendum:

• After the meeting adjourned, Carl and the First Officer arrived, so the meeting was re-opened to allow a more detailed report for the T-Shirt Committee.
• After much debate, the tentatively approved slogan runs as follows: "It's better geek than Greek while practicing your maniacal laughter and saying 'no report' in public."
• The slogan has been forwarded to the T-Shirt Committee for final wording and approval.
• Throughout these proceedings, the Captain expressed extreme annoyance at having to reopen the meeting in the first place, and eventually readjourned it, declaring, "Less democracy is good."