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Minutes

(03/27/2002)

Call To Order: 10:01:15 pm

Attendance:

• Elizabeth Liddell (Captain)
• Bryce Callighan (First Officer)
• David Henderson (Chief of Operations)
• Joel Oberdieck (Grand Nagus)
• Kenny Albright (Communications Officer)
• Joel Fried
• Gordo
• cj
• Dan Leach
• Becky Payne
• Jeff Shedlock
• Don Steiner
• Landon Winkler
• Ryan Woodrow
• Kevin Zepp
• Kristen Zidon

Minutes: Summarized and approved.

• David receives applause for the applause he received last week.
• The Nagus receives applause for the applause he received last week.
• The Comm Officer says, "I hate you all."
• The Nagus arrives at 10:07 and is applauded again.
• There is only one table in our room tonight, and all the other rooms are locked, so the officers have to share.
• Bryce receives applause for being able to finally sit down in his computer game, Ragnarok Online.
• The Captain asks if anyone taped last week's Saturday Night Live, hosted by Sir Ian McKellen; an awkward silence follows.
• Don arrives at 10:10.
• It is noted that many people are not here, due to a ripsnorting seder that Joel is holding tonight.
• It is also noted that Marisa is not here; the Captain deems this "kind of nice."
• Landon is appointed Understudy Deputy Constable, since the entire security wing is absent tonight for one reason or another.

Committee Reports:

• Psi Phi alum Robert Ray sends word that Psi Phi West at ASU will be co-sponsoring their first campus activity, a Traditional Native American Pow Wow, in the near future. It is hoped this will be the first of many successful events.

• Kristen gives this week's report, since she was there then, and is here now.
• The tournament will be April 20, and teams need to register by April 5.
• Psi Phi really should think about putting a team together, and maybe even two!

• Joel is not here. According to his AOL away message, he's a soon-to-be drunken atheist holding a seder, or something like that.
• Ray Kremer at Purdue has sent in $60 for the t-shirts we sent him, plus one more. The money will be added to the treasury next week, and we need to send Ray one more shirt.
• The Captain is highly miffed at the fact that, in this state, she has to formally request to keep her maiden name if she ever gets married.
• Gordo arrives at 10:22 and runs into Landon, who is very efficiently guarding the door. He brings pizza, which the Nagus promptly "yoinks" away from him.
• Gordo brings us pizza. Gordo is cool.
• Joel and Becky arrive at 10:24.

• WE HAVE NO CHIPS! {So bring chips this Friday - bags and bags of yummy chips!}
• It is noted that Lyz, the English major, is losing the ability to formulate and speak coherent sentences.
• Also, movies on DVD can be brought to movie night, as there is currently a DVD player in the brick house.
• This Friday's movie will be Star Trek: Insurrection, on DVD. The movie will start at 9:30. The map to the brick house will once again be put in email.

• "I assume things about the attractive, like, they get everything they want; or, their females wouldn't be interested in me." --Andy Richter, "Andy Richter Controls the Universe"
• No report.
• The No Report report is presented to the Comm Officer on part of Gordo's pizza box, to be preserved for posterity.
• The Nagus has Kristen appointed Grand Proxy Nagus.
• Crazy talk about "sub-"s ensues, but is subsequently subverted.

Officers' Reports:

• The minutes are up.
• David suggests that the pizza box be filed under "I," for "I have no idea where this should go."
• It is noted that Joel has horns.
• It is suggested that Joel eat the last piece of non-kosher pizza, but Anti-Joel beats him to it.
• Some sad news is reported. Three notable entertainers died today: Dudley Moore, Milton Berle, and Billy Wilder.
• This year's DragonCon in Atlanta will have former MST3K writers and performers Michael J. Nelson and Kevin Murphy as guests and masters of ceremonies (woohoo!). The con will run from August 30 to September 2.
• This week's STCCG Card of the Week was going to be Lt. Saavik until Ryan saw the even cooler card for Dr. Tolian Soran, which will be a key part of his Romulan space deck.
• Ryan begins talking about WWF stuff.
• ::HaCkEd!:: Kenny makes his glasses dance. ::HaCkEd!::
• A mööse once bit my sister...
• We apologise for the fault in the minutes. Those responsible have been sacked.
• Mynd you, mööse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
• We apologise again for the fault in the minutes. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

• Landon notes, "People are quiet tonight."
• Everything's under control.

• The current balance is $246.08.
• The Nagus is passed out on the floor.

• No report. [crudely drawn picture of the Chief's slightly frightening happy face to be inserted here at a later date]
• Regarding the picture, the Nagus is prompted to ask, "Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?"

• The First Officer courteously abstains from giving a report.

• We have "tons of freakin' mail."
• Mail:
  • One piece of mail is actually addressed to Lyz!
  • This piece of mail is about the Quiz Bowl tournament, which will have prizes! It has lots of notes written on it for the Captain, including "Letters." {Ha! Thought I'd forgotten it, didn't you?}
  • A flyer with information on providing a flyer for the fall freshman orientation binder
  • Kenny has been let loose to design a flyer for Psi Phi. Upon hearing this, he bursts into wet, bitter tears of despair, and is consoled by the Captain.
  • We also have a big honking sheaf of propaganda for "Best _______ of the Year." The Captain saves the paperwork to keep our office for another semester.
  • The motion is made to nominate either Psi Phi or our archenemies, the French Club, for Organization of the Year.

Old Business:

• The information for the Star Trek convention April 27 in Springfield has not changed.

New Business:

• Most new business was already covered earlier tonight, but is here repeated for {my} convenience.
• We should put together a flyer for the freshman orientation binder. Kenny has been nominated to design one.
• We should get a team together for the quiz bowl tournament. But nobody can do it. Ah, well.
• Ryan and Gordo might be able to do it, but they'll have to check.
• The motion is made that we organize an away team for GenCon in Milwaukee this August. This motion is postponed until later, because we don't like thinking too far ahead.

Scifi News:

• Jonathan Frakes is directing the pilot for a new Twilight Zone series which will air this fall on UPN.
• Three honored navy people from the U.S.S. Enterprise will make an appearance in the Enterprise episode "Desert Crossings," which should air May 18.
• The timetable for the projected release of ST:TNG DVDs by season is as follows: Season 1 - March 26 (yesterday); Season 2 - May 7; Season 3 - July 2; Season 4 - September 3; Season 5 - November 5; Season 6 - December 3; Season 7 - December 31.
• BINGO! {Editor's Note: I have no idea how this got in here, and I have no idea what it means; nonetheless, I feel obligated to report it.}
• It is noted that The Fellowship of the Ring got four Oscars. Yay!
• Farscape is coming back to Fridays at 8 and 11 on the Sci Fi Channel, starting this week. The first episode will be a repeat of the most recent old one, to be followed next week by the (new) final four episodes of this season.
• The season four episodes should begin airing in June.
• Greg the Bunny, starring Eugene Levy and Seth Green, has debuted on FOX. It creates a world where puppets live and walk among us!
• David has books this week! Who knew? {Besides David, I mean...}
• David has The Battle of Betazed, by Charlotte Douglas and Susan Kearney.
• David also has Tales of the Slayers, a new graphic novel anthology containing eight stories written by the people who make Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.
• David also also has Amazing Spider-Man: Coming Home, the first six issues written by JMS.
• David also also also has The Hologram's Handbook, written by the Doctor himself, Robert Picardo.
• David also also also also also {monotonous, isn't it?} also also has Music for Elevators, a CD by Anthony Stewart Head, Giles from Buffy.
• The season finale of Futurama will air the last week of April, and will be a sort of ode to Star Trek; it will feature the voices (and heads) of all surviving members of the original show, and is expected to be very funny, based on the review it got at Grand Slam Con, where it premiered last weekend.
• Kenny found the "Imperial Rhapsody" from the Star Wars Rock Opera on the web the other day. Gordo, Lyz and Kenny proceed to sing it.
• cj announces that the lava lamp in Jobst Hall is in a fireproof box. Also, they are supposed to be changing the color of the lava lamp soon; we'll keep you posted as this breaking story develops.
• Don notes that Resident Evil 2 is supposed to be in the works.
• Joel O. proudly states that the SBAD, companion document to the SBAM, is nearing completion.
• Landon reports that Al Quiros, who mans the Technology HelpDesk, is the person to talk to about all things Buffy.

Adjournment: 10:59:50 (ooogy-boogy-boogy)(Quetzalcoatl)(it's me, it's me, it's DDP)pm