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Minutes

(02/20/2002)

Call To Order: 10:05 pm

Attendance:

• Elizabeth Liddell (Captain)
• Bryce Callighan (First Officer)
• David Henderson (Chief of Operations)
• Joel Oberdieck (Grand Nagus)
• Kenny Albright (Communications Officer)
• Marisa Bonomo
• Julie Faas
• Joel Fried
• Andrew Kalafut
• Carl Murphy
• Aaron Nevitt
• Monica Prorok
• Jeff Shedlock
• Don Steiner
• Rachel Weinberg
• Landon Winkler
• Ryan Woodrow
• Kevin Zepp

Minutes: Summarized and approved.

• The First Officer calls the meeting to order.
• The First Officer thinks people should pay attention in "bromes."
• The Captain arrives and takes command at 10:06.
• Carl states that he didn't steal the bapper, as was postulated last week (well, he did steal it, but he put it back). He thinks it should still be somewhere in the office.
• Andrew arrives at 10:07.
• Ryan and Marisa arrive at 10:13.
• Anti-Joel arrives at 10:14.
• The Captain remarks, "Bryce, come over here and like me."
• Julie and Carl depart in search of the bapper at 10:16. They return at 10:20 with the bapper and the phaser; Carl can now officially take over as Deputy Constable. Applause ensues.

Committee Reports:

• David sent t-shirts off to Arizona and Oregon on Saturday, and was paid for them. They are being enjoyed.

• There was candy at the last meeting. They are planning a Bradley tournament for April.

• We still have t-shirts. People are paying for them and picking them up.
• Joel gives $17.50 to the Nagus and owes him another $7.50.

• We have chips. Rachel doesn't want people over this weekend, but it's B-Con anyway, so no movie this week.

• Landon offers the club a choice of reports: either he can do the Gatto dance, or he can tell an allegedly charming limerick about Nantucket, in its full unedited glory. He then proceeds to give both reports, to the horror of all.
• Bryce reports that Dr. Jones recently fired his replica of a Revolutionary pistol at a milk carton, since he didn't have a pig.
• Marisa further quotes Dr. Jones as saying, "If I had a pig, I'd use my cannon."

Officers' Reports:

• Last week's minutes are up.

• Carl laughs, and says, "I have the power!"
• Everything's (eventually) under control.

• Give us money!
• David and Joel give the Nagus the t-shirt money they have collected: Joel gives $17.50 already referred to above, and David gives $100: $119.50 for t-shirts plus $15.50, more of the amazon.com money, minus $35 for convention costs owed to David.
• The Nagus loans Julie the $50 for MCS to run B-Con.
• The current balance is $67.32.

• No report.

• The First Officer's report is delegated to Anti-Joel, Lyz, Landon, and Rachel: "Look at meeeee!"

• Mail => "Letters."
• Mail:
  • A flyer from the Multicultural Center for Gary Moore, a storyteller/drummer performing this Friday, February 22, probably at the Garrett Center.
  • Many pages about various Community Service Opportunities, wanting us to do stuff. The Captain assumes no one is interested.

Old Business:

• Julie states that B-Con will be this Saturday and Sunday. Currently scheduled events include a Hitchhiker's Guide game, a Magic tournament, anime showings all day, Dungeons and Dragons, war gaming, MechWar, and War of Shadows.
• The final schedule will be posted online at medievalcollegesociety.freeservers.com. All events will be held in the Student Center basement, except for the war gaming, which will be in the MCS office.
• Ryan reports that Slanted Fedora "says" there will be autographs at the Midwest sci-fi conventions to be held this April; he suggests this new info be taken with a few crystals of NaCl.
• Ryan also says that Dave Scott has been making amends with Patrick Stewart regarding an earlier convention deal; he will forward the information to the mailing list.
• Joel says that latkes won the Latke-Hamantasch debate this weekend 3-0, with 1 abstention. One point in their favor was the conviction that "any word with a 'K' in it is funny."

New Business:

• Julie motions that we have a mudfight. Ryan seconds the motion. All interested persons can meet outside after the meeting.
• A motion to have a game of "strip Risk" never gets off the ground.

Scifi News:

• David has books this week:
  • A Hard Rain, by Dean Wesley Smith. It's a TNG Dixon Hill novel. David terms it "highly amusing." He reads an except aloud, which receives applause.
  • Starfleet Year 1, by Michael Jan Friedman. This book is a compilation of the serial novel published in 2000-2001. Almost everything in it has been contradicted by Enterprise so far, but for those of you who like "alternate history"...
• David also has the Tron soundtrack, its first re-release in 20 years.
• Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan have both had knee injuries while shooting their respective films.
• How would the next Bond movie be if new Bond girl Halle Berry were replaced by Barry Bostwick (as a certain soda company seems to think is so easy to do)?
• Carl says "Ni!" since Julie poked him and then stole the bapper.
• Landon reports that The Seventh Sea CCG has been cancelled. He also announces that a few more people will be needed for the War of Shadows game at B-Con on Sunday.
• Carl asks if anyone has the two newest Enterprise episodes, Shadows of P'Jem and Shuttlepod One, on tape. He missed them since the cable company finally cut the juice at his place, after a decade of free cable.
• David reports that Dean Stockwell, "Al" of Quantum Leap fame, will be appearing in "Detained," an Enterprise episode scheduled to air in April. {Enough with the "reunion" gags, already...}
• Ryan has read the rules for the new Wizards of the Coast version of the Star Wars CCG. Among other things, dice are involved. Ryan's basic review is "not good."
• James Doohan just left the hospital. He had been in for the past three weeks, suffering from pneumonia and a collapsed lung.
• Finally, it has been reported that William Shatner's website, which he "writes" himself, has just been updated.

Adjournment: 10:46:56 (uxorious)(ooogy-boogy-boogy)(dreidel)pm