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Minutes

(02/06/2002)

Call To Order: 10:03:30 pm

Attendance:

• Elizabeth Liddell (Captain)
• Bryce Callighan (First Officer)
• David Henderson (Chief of Operations)
• Joel Oberdieck (Grand Nagus)
• Kenny Albright (Communications Officer)
• Marisa Bonomo
• Joel Fried
• cj
• Andrew Kalafut
• Aaron Nevitt
• Fred Pugh
• Don Steiner
• Rachel Weinberg
• Landon Winkler
• Ryan Woodrow
• Laura Zadrozny
• Alumni: Matt Detzler

Minutes: Summarized and approved.

• The Chief reads the minutes tonight, whilst the Comm Officer takes attendance. {He seems to get a lot more reverent attention during this than the Comm Officer usually does...}
• It is noted that we are meeting in the Alumni Dining Room tonight, as our usual room was made unavailable by the Job Fair and the Captain had access to this one.
• Fred is sent in search of stray members who may yet be searching for the meeting room. He returns with Marisa in tow.
• The entire security wing appears to be conspicuously absent, leaving the club with a dearth of constabular muscle. In view of this, Rachel is appointed Acting Deputy Constable by Captain's Order for tonight.

Committee Reports:

• Psi Phi alum Matt Detzler has dropped in for tonight's meeting.

• The club met Monday and read through questions from a recent high school tournament.
• Also, Chris K. and Kenny partipicated in the Black History Quiz Bowl Tuesday, and did fairly well.

• We will have t-shirts soon!
• $200 was paid to the t-shirt people, about half of the total cost.
• We need to start collecting money from everyone who ordered a shirt, lest the club have to pull an Enron.
• The Captain will attempt to contact people by email to remind them.
• Joel will try to have shirts available for the people going to the convention on Sunday, and maybe some for the Purdue group as well. [Editor's note: Not this week, as it turned out. Ah, well.]

• Landon, Joel, Anti-Joel, and Kenny engaged in a marathon session of Evangelion-viewing this weekend.
• Send Lyz your movie ideas!
• Suggested movies include Scanners, Scanners 2, Spaceballs, and Sorcerer Hunters.
• Landon motions that we have a movie at Landon and Lyz's house Friday night at 9. No one is violently opposed, so the motion passes.
• Fred offers to bring his DVD player: "I've got connections like madfly, dude."

• No report.

Officers' Reports:

• Last week's minutes are up. Also, small errors were discovered in some sets of minutes of recent meetings; these errors have been corrected.
• A link has been added from the Bradley Psi Phi homepage to the Psi Phi Enterprise page.
• The Comm Officer has discovered while perusing the archives that Anti-Joel has tied a club record for the highest number of offices to which one person has been elected. Anti-Joel is the first person since Paul Mulka to hold three different Psi Phi offices. Interested persons can check out the Officers page on the website.

• Asked whether everything is under control, Rachel replies, "Sure."
• "A steward?" --Capt. Jonathan Archer, "Shadows of P'Jem"
• Everything's under control.

• The current balance is $202.32, after paying out $200.00 for t-shirts, and after adding $100.00 from David, part of the amazon.com money for the last quarter.

• Come see the site.

• The First Officer opines that "they should either be pronounced 'Kansas' and 'Ar-kansas,' or 'Arkansaw' and 'Kansaw.'"

• We have mail. We sing "Letters."
• Mail:
  • A flyer reminding us to celebrate Black History Month in February

Old Business:

• Ryan, David, Aaron, and Kenny will definitely be attending the convention on Sunday; Fred might attend as well.
• Convention-goers should congregate after the meeting and make the necessary arrangements.
• Landon's request to have all mention of the flamingo stricken from the minutes is denied.
• Apparently, Landon has sacrificed the flamingo to help him get classes for this semester.

Scifi News:

• David has the first Farscape comic book, "Farscape: War Torn."
• David also has covers for the first ST:TOS trilogy, The Janus Gate by L.A. Graf. The titles of the books are Book One: Present Tense, Book Two: Future Imperfect, and Book Three: Past Prologue. Books One and Two will be out in June, with the third one available in July.
• Furthermore, David has the cover to the first book to the second TOS trilogy, Errand of Vengeance by Kevin Ryan. The first book is titled The Edge of the Sword, which will be out in July; the other two books will be out in August.
• In addition, David has information on DVD releases:
  • The DVD box set for the second season of ST:TNG will be out May 7.
  • The DVD box set for the fifth season of X-Files will be out in widescreen format May 14.
  • The first Harry Potter movie will be out on DVD May 28.
  • The special edition DVD of STII:TWOK will be available sometime in June.
  • The DVD box set of the Back to the Future trilogy should be out sometime in July.
  • The special edition DVD of UHF should be out sometime this summer.
  • The DVD box set for the first season of Babylon 5 should be out in the fall.
  • A Raiders of the Lost Ark DVD is reportedly in the works.
• Marisa reports that the Eye of the World book in the Wheel of Time series is being rereleased, with a new chapter added.
• Laura notes that Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned will be out in theaters February 22.
• Ryan adds that the second season of M.A.S.H. will be out on DVD sometime in May.
• Landon reports he has added a "Holodeck Fantasy" techno to his desktop. (Think Seven of Nine and Janeway...)
• Bryce says that you can find a hilarious rap, "Fett's Vette," in the "Tunes" section of www.mcchris.com.

Adjournment: 10:37:27 (verism)pm