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Minutes

(04/03/2002)

Call To Order: 10:05 pm

Attendance:

• Elizabeth Liddell (Captain)
• Bryce Callighan (First Officer) (proxy by the officers' table)
• David Henderson (Chief of Operations)
• Joel Oberdieck (Grand Nagus)
• Kenny Albright (Communications Officer)
• Joel Fried
• Carl Murphy
• Jeff Shedlock
• Don Steiner
• Rachel Weinberg
• Landon Winkler
• Laura Zadrozny
• Kevin Zepp

Minutes: Summarized and approved.

• The call to order receives spontaneous applause from outside; the all-school elections forum is taking place in the Marty Theater tonight.
• Today's meeting will be hummed; more applause occurs.
• Carl and Laura arrive at 10:10.
• It is confirmed that nobody taped the SNL episode with Ian McKellen. Oh, well.
• We are meeting in Room 6 tonight, since Room 5 was locked and dark, and Room 6 is open, lighted, and empty.
• As a consequence, we have a lectern tonight for the Captain's use.
• The Captain sneezes; it is requested that said sneeze be recorded in the minutes. (Request granted.)
• Carl steps up to the lectern and speaks; his speech receives more outside applause.
• The reading of last week's Recruitment and Relations report receives outside applause.
• Further outside applause is to be stricken from the minutes except for cases deemed highly appropriate.
• The Nagus arrives at 10:20, and receives outside applause.
• Discussion ensues on the proper usage of "boat" versus "ship."
• The statement "The Fellowsip of the Ring won four Oscars" receives outside applause.
• The Nagus orders the door closed to stifle outside applause, and suggests the Captain declare herself dictator.
• The Captain's record of Mozart's K. 191 for bassoon receives applause.
• The minutes receive applause.

Committee Reports:

• No report.

• The Quiz Bowl club is looking for donations for prizes to give out at the tournament; maybe they could beg Psi Phi for the flamingo in the MCS office.
• Also, Psi Phi should put a team together. Gordo can't do it. Ryan isn't here tonight to confirm or cancel.
• Anti-Joel remarks, "I'm not waking up; screw you all."

• Ray's last t-shirt should be in the mail this weekend.
• {Everybody else who ordered a shirt should please come to a meeting and pick it up; we don't want to have to hunt you all down...}
• Carl begins to do strange things to Joel's backpack.

• We still have no chips! People brought chips and they're still gone!
• The club owes thanks to the Dan Schimdt campaign, who provided the brick house with the perfect base to use in making an all-weather Psi Phi sign.
• Gordo brought Insurrection on VHS, and it was watched.
• Four officers attended movie night, so it was declared an impromptu meeting; this way, Chris K. wouldn't have to say he missed all the meetings this semester.
• This week, The Fellowship of the Ring is playing in the Marty Theater, so that will be the movie this week. Do it if you feel like it.

• Anti-Joel says, "Ooogy-boogy-boogy!"
• Lyz has more copies of Mozart's K. 191 for bassoon, including one that uses a French bassoon instead of the usual German one.
• Rachel on the French bassoon: "So it's nasally and obnoxious?"
• No report.

Officers' Reports:

• The minutes are up.

• Psi Phi received an email this week from our Constable in the field, to wit:
• "Just so Psi Phi doesn't think I've been doing nothing all those Wednesday nights I've skipped... Read the Scout's annual Flatline edition tomorrow. Psi Phi gets a nice little tip of the hat in the story about the new senator. Enjoy! --Chris, the absentee constable"
• Indeed, the article talked of the recent successful campaign of a ficus plant for Student Senate, and its inspiration being last year's campaign of "the shoe" for high office in all-school elections.
• Carl adds that everything's under control.

• The current balance is $306.08, after adding Ray's t-shirt money to the treasury.

• There was an outage on the website last Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm, so the site was down for a while. {It's fixed now. Go look and see!}

• Our First Officer couldn't be here tonight, but he sent the Comm Officer a email, which reads as follows:
• "I am not able to attend the meeting tonight because the fates hate me, so I thought I would send you all the important data to save you time in writing the minutes. {Editor's note: By the way, thanks, Bryce!} My proxy is to be the officers' table; that way I am still doing work. My report is: Bryce wanted to be remembered for what he was, a disco ninja robot who taught sexy women to love...robot style. That's it. Thanks. --Bryce Callighan"
• The First Officer's report is read and receives applause.

• We have mail. "Letters" is sung.
• Mail:
  • A flyer for the all-school philanthropy, the Rock-a-Thon. It is noted that it's not what it sounds like; it's people sitting in rocking chairs.
  • We will not give them money, but we consider stoning them for a while.
  • More propaganda from Volunteer Vibe. This issue has an interesting quote by General George S. Patton: "If a man does his best, what else is there?"
  • It is noted that in the last World at War game, General Patton got beat by General Grover's Panzer divisions.
  • Also, voting for all-school officers will take place April 8 and 9.

Old Business:

• GenCon, the gaming convention, will run from August 8-11 in Milwaukee this year. We'll try to set up an away team for it sometime in the future.
• Prospective attendees at this time are Landon, Ryan, Gordo, and Gordo's dad.

New Business:

• The Comm Officer reports that AlCon 3, the Weird Al convention, is taking place in Chicago, the same weekend at the Star Trek convention in Springfield, so we can't go. {Nooooooooo!}
• The motion to run a write-in candidate for an all-school office is discussed. Possible nominees include the following:
  • Laura and Joel nominate the ficus plant, what with its experience in government.
  • Rachel nominates Henrietta "Pojo" DuCluck, Blue Chicken of Doom.
  • Also, last year's strong showing, the shoe, is renominated.
  • David remarks, "The other shoe dropped."
  • Lyz nominates a nude flamingo.
  • [crudely drawn though hilarious caricature of David's suprised face to be inserted here at a later date]
  • Carl proposes a slogan: "Would you vote for the chicken, or for this man?"
• The motion to run Henrietta passes 10-0, with three courteous abstentions. {Bryce, we felt you would want to be included there...}
• The Captain suggests that Henrietta run for treasurer, so "we get their money." So that's what we shall do.
• Rachel has sidewalk chalk for chalking the campus.
• David asks if we need SAO approval to chalk campus; we probably do. Will we get it? No.
• We didn't need it last year, since it rained the day after we chalked the campus, so few people saw it.
• {Editor's note: As I write this, it is raining outside. D'oh!}

Scifi News:

• David has the hardcover printing of The Eugenics Wars, Volume II, by Greg Cox. It will be out later this month.
• A sort of sequel to The Eugenics Wars due out next year will be To Reign in Hell, also by Greg Cox. It will be a follow-up diary of Khan's activities on Ceti Alpha 5.
• The Wolf Lake series was cancelled by CBS due to low ratings, so naturally it has been picked up by UPN, where as David says, "Low ratings are not a problem."
• The pilot episode will air tonight after Enterprise, with "new" episodes (those unaired by CBS) airing in upcoming weeks. On David's scale of shows, it ranks an "I haven't seen it."
• Ronald Moore, of TNG and DS9 fame, has apparently joined the writing staff of Battlestar Galactica.
• In other news, Wil Wheaton has posted on his website news that he will be joining the cast of Enterprise. (April Fool!)
• Once again another April 1 has come and gone, and once again, the Comm Officer, a gullible though amiable sap, has walked right into it.
• The Sci Fi Channel is developing a four-hour miniseries based on the Myst computer game.
• The cover art and back-cover blurbs for the four books in the DS9 Mission: Gamma series are up on the website. The covers put side-by-side-by-side-by-side form the cast photo for the "eighth season."
• The Fellowship of the Ring will be available on VHS and DVD on August 6. Also, a Special Extended Edition DVD, with 30 minutes of additional footage added into the film, will be available sometime afterwards.
• David adds that the Special Edition DVD should be four disks, and may come with special bookends to hold all three DVD sets for the three movies.
• Laura says that Resident Evil games will be coming out for the Ninetendo GameCube, and they look really cool.

Adjournment: 11:02:37 (beep-beep-zip-bang!)(ooogy-boogy-boogy)(yeeeipong)pm