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Minutes

(08/23/2000)

Call To Order: 10:05(now)pm

Attendance:

• Joel Oberdieck (Captain)
• Julie Faas (First Officer)
• David Henderson (Chief of Operations)
• Meg Callender (Grand Nagus)
• Kenny Albright (Communications Officer)
• Roger Grunkemeyer
• Amy Lewis
• Aaron Nevitt
• C. Adam Scott
• Charlie Truong
• Ryan Woodrow
• Guest: Ray Kremer

Minutes: Summarized and approved.

Committee Reports:

• People signed up for Psi Phi at the Activities Fair. Yay!
• Arizona State University is starting up its own Psi Phi sector.
• Technically, they would be sector 006, but there are no plans as yet to resurrect the defunct Universal Assembly.
• The students in Dr. John Kenny's PHY 202 class know about Psi Phi, as he enjoys Star Trek, and talked about wormholes and Odo on the first day of classes.
• Alumni watch: Former Grand Nagus Jeff Cavanaugh has accepted a teaching position at UIUC, and is reportedly getting a free ride on his poly-sci master's.
• Also, former Captain Seth Robison is now a gofer at Paramount Pictures in L.A. Go Seth!
• Seth has offered to pass along information to David, but he knows what's going on over there already.

• The Trouble with Tribbles expansion is now available for Star Trek CCG.
• Wheel of Fire expansion is out for Babylon 5 CCG.
• The Nagus brought some cards from the Austin Powers CCG, which were scanned and analyzed.

Officers' Reports:

• No report.

• The current balance is $152.13.

• We have received checks from amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, and amazon.de.
• We basically have a whole big bunch of money; the exact sum is yet to be determined.

• The First Officer Emeritus suggested we re-institute a Movie Committee next week.

• We have small quantities of mail.
• Mail:
  • We either have or owe $31.20 on our copying account; we'll check into which it is.
  • We have reserved Room 5 in the Student Center for our meetings this semester; however, since tonight that room was locked, we just commandeered Room 6 like we always do.
  • We are again sharing office space with the Medieval College Society.
  • Conversation turns to the possible merger of MCS and Psi Phi, since all the officers for both organizations are here anyway.

Old Business:

• The Psi Phi flyers and TV schedules for sci-fi shows were passed out at the Activities Fair.
• A Food and Beverage committee was hastily formed to provide snacks for the new recruits at next week's meeting.

Scifi News:

• Upcoming season premieres:
  • Buffy/Angel: September 26
  • Voyager (Season 7): October 4
  • Andromeda: October 8
• The sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories has been canceled. It has contained items on Trek, Wars, and B5.
• Another company may be looking into buying the story backlogs.
• Rights to the Star Trek RPG have been bought by Decipher. You can check out the details at www.decipher.com.
• The scripts for 3 never-produced episodes of Crusade can be found online at www.bookface.com.
• A new series of Star Trek e-books is out! The first is Star Trek SCE, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Basically, after the Enterprise-D completes a mission, the SCE moves in to clean up the mess.
• The e-book is selling pretty well; currently, it's #2 on the best-selling list of e-books for Barnes and Noble, and #300 on the list of all books.
• You can order it through ebooks.barnesandnoble.com, or try our very own Psi Phi book database at www.psiphi.org.
• Books 9 and 10 of the Star Trek: New Frontier series will be out next week, but David, as always, has brought some advance copies! Yay!
• Also, David has a cover from the Excalibur hardcover in New Frontier, which will be out in November.
• Decipher has been busy; it has also acquired the rights to create a CCG for J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, soon to be immortalized in movie form in 2001, 2002, and 2003.
• Talk progressed to the status of the Godzilla: 2000 movie. Apparently, it's doing well. Also, other new movies were mentioned, such as The Cell, the one with the creepy commercials.
• Adam moved that we try to watch Farscape Fridays at 8. David's endorsement: "It's as good as Buffy!"
• Discussion about X-Men: the Movie spirals into specific disorder.

Adjournment: 10:43(now)pm