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Minutes

(04/05/2000)

Call To Order: 10:07pm

Attendance:

• Joel Oberdieck (Captain)
• Julie Faas (First Officer)
• David Henderson (Chief of Operations)
• Meg Callender (Grand Nagus)
• Steven Noto (Communications Officer)
• Kenny Albright
• Kate Cavanaugh
• Carl Murphy
• Aaron Nevitt
• Chris Paluch
• Monica Prorok
• C. Adam Scott
• Charlie Truong
• Ryan Woodrow

Minutes: Summarized and approved.

Committee Reports:

• No report.

• The new expansion for Young Jedi CCG, Battle of Naboo, has been released. This third expansion for YJ will include a special foil set.
• The Pokemon Team Rocket expansion will make its debut this month. Apparently, it will be a "Mirror, Mirror" version of Pokemon.

• No report.
• Adam is on the table for tonight's report.

Officers' Reports:

• The minutes are being adjusted.

• There were 10 winners in the trivia contest, out of 159 entrants.
• While no one got a perfect, some people came close. 3 people missed 1 question, 2 people missed 2, 3 missed 3, and 2 missed 4.
• Carl has available a 486 computer, with 1.2 gigs of memory, 8 megs of RAM with 3 expansion slots, and a working CD-ROM, for use with the Psi Phi website.

• The current balance is $147.98, same as last week.

• Julie is back this week, with an idea.
• Only 4 and a half weeks left until the Chem 166 final.

• Specific disorder ensued.
• Mail:
  • Item for the Presidential Round Table. Seth went; Joel's enthusiasm for it defies words.
  • Pokemon and kazoos make it into the Captain's mail report.
  • Flyer for next year's freshman Orientation binder; we need to put something in it
  • We'll need 1200 copies of our page by May 3
  • Ryan will see about getting the copies; at 2.9 cents per copy, the cost should run about $34.91.
  • Hillel is sponsoring a reading of the names of those lost in the Holocaust for 24 hours, 5 pm April 24 through 5 pm April 25.
  • Application for Student Volunteer Award is met with raucous laughter.
  • Flyer for a speech on Body Image in Today's Society; the Captain has no comment.
  • Student Senate propaganda; debates for the upcoming election were today.
  • One of the candidates has the last name Cocayne; discussions begin about cocaine.
  • General disorder ensued.

New Business:

• There was talk about setting up a Red Dwarf marathon near the end of the year. Plans are still in the formative stages.

Scifi News:

• Captain's order to "shut up" nullifies general disorder.
• Babylon 5 is moving to the Sci-Fi Channel! Woo-hoo!
  • Starting September 25th, Sci-Fi will show B-5 weekdays at 6 pm.
  • The run will include all 110 epsiodes, as well as the 5 movies.
  • However, current plans indicate that Crusade will not be picked up.
• We get Farscape episodes before New Zealand does, for a change.
• John Ordover will OK a new Captain Sulu book only if he gets 1000 letters from fans requesting such.
• The deadline for letters is May 1. Here's the address: Captain Sulu c/o John Ordover, Pocket Books, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
• The Chief says to write letters!!!
• Out this week on video are Star Wars Episode 1, as well as episodes 1-6 of Voyager's first season.
• Tonight on Biography: William Shatner! With priceline.com commercials in between! (Run for the hills!)
• Rumors on the 10th Star Trek film:
  • Probably will be the last with the Next Generation cast
  • Patrick Stewart said he'd like to see it pick up right where Insurrection left off, and conjectured that it would be Worf's last movie
  • This is not necessarily what might happen, though
  • Another idea was that Data might meet his doom in the movie
• Unimatrix 0 rumors include Janeway becoming the new Borg Queen, and a liaison between Janeway and Seven.
• Adam is disturbingly enthusiastic with regard to this last rumor.
• New series rumors include one based on the Birth of the Federation
• Would there be room for a future timeline twist?
• Adam thinks George Lucas should apologize for and remake Episode 1.
• Entertaining thought: Kirk seduces Borg Queen!!

Adjournment: 10:48pm