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Minutes

(02/05/2003)

Call To Order: 10:03:12 pm

Attendance:

• Elizabeth Liddell (Captain)
• Kenny Albright (First Officer)
• David Henderson (Chief of Operations)
• Ryan Woodrow (Grand Nagus)
• Landon Winkler (Constable)
• Dan Leach (Communications Officer)
• Jeff Hibbard (Faculty Advisor)
• Marisa Bonomo
• CJ
• Joel Fried
• Gordo (Via plush Pikachu proxy)
• Andrew Kalafut
• Elizabeth Koprucki
• Carl Murphy
• Aaron Nevitt
• Meaghan Porter
• Fred Pugh
• Jeff Shedlock
• Don Steiner
• Laura Zadrozny
• Kevin Zepp
• Kristen Zidon

There were 22 attendees.

Minutes:

Briefly summarized. Sci-fi news was passed around.

Committee Reports:

Recruitment and Relations Committee:

• No Report.

Movie Committee:

• Meet at the Brickhouse at 2pm on Saturday for more TNG goodness, starting with "Where No One Has Gone Before."
• [Item deleted for security reasons.]

ORC:

• Lyz discovered she can talk to people, including Ron Gibson and other higher-ups in food services. Maximum dimensions were given for a table. Also, it is decided that matching/stacking chairs would be ideal, with stacking chairs being more important than matching ones.
• Other items may be obtained at Target or K-Mart, but not Wal-Mart.

No Report Committee:

• Quiz bowl won at ISU and received a giant glass bought at Wal-Mart.
• Kenny was the MVP.
• Wal-Mart sucks.
• No report.

Officers' Reports:

Communications Officer:

• The minutes were up yesterday. *much applause*
• Errors have been corrected.

Constable:

• Landon notes that big words are fun and so is 100% on a quiz.
• Everything's under control.
• "I have the bapper."

Chief of Operations:

• The site is currently down. The network connection was lost on February 1^st.
• Options are being looked at for a new place to move it, however we have obtained temporary space. (Yay!)
• The book database and Enterprise site will be up in a few days.
• Motion is made to write Dave Galanter a thank you letter.
• Motion is seconded and passed.
• The Communications Officer will write the letter.
• Orders from before the outage are shipping.
• $159.16 has been made this quarter, which is $22.96 more than last week.

Grand Nagus:

• The current balance is $421.47.

First Officer:

• It has been a successful week for Kenny.
• Japan is over-achieving, ish.
• There is visual confirmation of the ugliness of the band uniforms.
• Last Thursday in AV much time was spent trying to get a CD to work.

Captain:

• We have mail. "Letters" is sung.
• Mail:
  • I nice pink piece of propaganda from volunteer vibe arrived.
  • [Item deleted for security reasons.]
  • Marisa baps herself.
  • Career Center propaganda.
  • We do not do fundraisers.
  • The Peoria Area Anti-Hunger Coalition is looking for help with their Can-A-Thon.
  • Otherworld's Sci-Fi Alien Alerts. (contains ads for various sci-fi novels)
  • Various oohs, ahhs, and awws are voiced.

• The Captain has not been at home. She is busy. This is sad.

Old Business:

• Election reform is once again tabled.
• Motion is made to form an election reform tabling committee.
• Motion is made to table said motion.
• Landon volunteers to lead the election reform committee. Laura, Joel and Carl will also be on said committee. Chris Kaergard will be consulted; and thus the ERC is formed.

New Business:

• None.

Other Organization's Announcements:

• B-Con will take place from 10-10 on March 1^st and 2^nd. On the 1^st, Psi Phi will be in meeting room 6. On the 2^nd, we will be in the executive suite.
• A schedule for B-Con will be available next week.
• There will be an anime marathon Saturday assuming someone can run it.
• It is noted that people are playing the Pump It Up machine.

Sci-fi News:

• As most people have heard, the space shuttle Columbia was tragically destroyed earlier in week. The Enterprise episode that aired today was preceded by a tribute.
• AOL will have an exclusive 15 minute mini episode of "Smallville."
• Both Andromeda and Mutant X have been renewed.
• The cover for Prophecy and Change has been uploaded.
• Genesis Wave Book 3, by John Vornholt, is available in paperback.
• Gemini, by Mike W. Barr, is available.
• Star Trek: Aliens and Artifacts has been donated to the Psi Phi library courtesy of David.
• The cover for Homecoming, by Christine Golden, the first Voyager novel taking place after "Endgame"has been released -- it may change.
• David has a copy of the manuscript for the first (of two) books. The first book will be available in June and the second in July.
• An experiment using quantum containment took place. Researchers were able to instantaneously communicate over a distance of over two kilometers.
• This is very cool.
• "The Animatrix" DVD will be available in either May or June. Four of the episodes will first be released at http://www.theanimatrix.com/, one each month until its release.
• An Onion article appeared whose author stated that the "Lord Of The Rings" movies are making him leave "Star Wars" as his first love.
• "Cube -- Special Edition" will be available in April.
• Joel suggests buying 3 copies to become "cubed." He is subsequently shot.
• The Captain wastes everybody's time playing with her PDA.
• Lyz's fantasy novel which she has spent seven years writing was completed over the winter break. A consistency edit was finished last week. A text edit is in progress.
• She will gladly autograph copies of it once it is published and donate one to the Psi Phi library. This is all very cool.
• Lyz attended a writing seminar at GenCon in 2000 and used her GenCon pass to open a locked door. Monty Cook will remember this J.
• Elizabeth's roommate sucks.
• A course in hand drumming is offered here that is taught by a guy in NC via Internet2. Everyone is mic'd and has a camera on them. This is cool.
• Don is a closet stoner.
• [Item deleted for security reasons.]
• Bapping ensues.
• Lyz wants to go to Kinko's and so, sadly ends the meeting at:

Adjournment: 10:46:52 pm. Please exit the Geek arena.

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