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Minutes

(04/17/2002)

Call To Order: 10:00 (existential)pm

Attendance:

• Elizabeth Liddell (Captain)
• Bryce Callighan (First Officer)
• David Henderson (Chief of Operations)
• Joel Oberdieck (Grand Nagus)
• Kenny Albright (Communications Officer)
• Jon Davison
• Joel Fried
• Gordo
• cj
• Dan Leach
• Ed Meister
• Carl Murphy
• Aaron Nevitt
• Monica Prorok
• Fred Pugh
• Jeff Shedlock
• Don Steiner
• Rachel Weinberg
• Landon Winkler
• Ryan Woodrow
• Kevin Zepp

Minutes: Summarized and approved.

• The meeting is called to order when a quorum is reached; the formula provided for calculating a quorum is David's "microwave popcorn frequency" formula.
• The First Officer convenes the meeting, as the Captain will be late.
• Carl bangs a sandal on the table to establish order.
• Joel "pops" in (pun courtesy of David) 27 seconds later. Two more late kernels appear later.
• Ryan compares and contrasts the latest expansions of the Star Trek and Raw Deal CCGs. He postulates putting Seven of Nine up against The Rock. [Item deleted from minutes for security reasons.]
• Ryan has declared half a major. David asks if that makes him a "maj."
• David is to be bapped for that last comment, during the three seconds on party night when he is technically not Chief, and thus no longer a bap-free zone.
• David comments on the report of last week's colloquium on time: "They ran out of time." He has just earned another bap at the end of the semester party.
• Anti-Joel, addressing Ryan, remarks, "You got to talk about ballet; we get to talk about cartoons."
• Specific disorder ensues while the anime faction and the wrestling faction duke it out for a while. {Why, oh why can't someone invent anime wrestling? That would accomodate everybody!}
• The Captain arrives at 10:23. Her toe is smashed.
• The First Officer runs away screaming from the awesome power of the Captain.
• Ryan solves the chair problem (namely, Carl); he receives applause.
• The Captain left a note for tonight (which apparently no one found), which read as follows: "I'm going to be late. Bryce, you're the man."
• Gordo arrives at 10:26.
• It's all Bryce's fault. {And not mine, for once...}

Committee Reports:

• Jon Davison is back tonight; he's in Bryce's civ class.

• The presidency next semester is pretty much up for grabs right now.

• Joel is wearing a t-shirt.
• We should start emailing death threats to people on campus who haven't yet claimed their t-shirts.
• Landon has an even better idea: "Let's put their names on the HelpDesk webpage!"

• Red Planet and Princess Mononoke were watched last Friday night.
• Ignore the chips that are not here. We have no chips. Repeat: we have no chips.
• There will be no movie this week, because we're all busy.

• The First Officer delegates the report to Anti-Joel.
• Ryan asks for data on the name "Petr."
• David adds, "No report."

Officers' Reports:

• The minutes are up.
• "Hallux," the technical name for the big toe and a word David used at the close of a meeting a few weeks ago, was an answer on Jeopardy! today. (The question was, "What is a big toe?")
• This past Sunday's Futurama was marvelous, containing references to both Star Wars and Iron Chef. Bender did battle in the Kitchen Colosseum!
• Ryan reports that The Motion Pictures expansion of STCCG was released today, and it's really good.

• "This must be a Thursday. I can never handle Thursdays." --Carl
• Everything's under control.

• No one has money for us this week.
• The current balance is $306.08 (± 3 pennies), same as last week.
• The Nagus turned in his last paper he will ever write as an undergraduate today. Applause ensues.
• Italy [item deleted for security reasons].

• No report.

• In the recent student elections, campaigning for yetis took place. It is noted that in this respect, Psi Phi was way ahead of the game. Woo!

• Mail received. "Letters" sung. {Me no use helping verbs...}
• Mail:
  • Mail that is addressed to David. He reads it and declares it junk, because it's just somebody asking for money. However, it has a most excellent postmark from San Dimas, CA.
  • Propaganda from SEAC for Friday's Earth Day celebration. Bands performing that day will include "Pitcholi [sic] and the Giesert 8 [sic]." {I'm getting [sic] of all these typos...}
• General disorder ensues.
• Paperwork for letting the club exist next semester was filed last week, thirty minutes before the due date. Applause ensues.

Old Business:

• The Star Trek convention in Springfield, IL is still set for April 27, from 11 am to 5 pm.
• Admission is $10 plus tax at the door. Autographs will be available for $10 each.
• Ryan is passing around a sign-up sheet for people who want to go.

New Business:

• Officers' nominations for next semester will be entertained at next week's meeting. If you want to nominate someone for an office, either show up to the meeting, or send a written statement.
• And while we're at it, let's activate the Party Committee! {Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off for a whole week.}
• Gordo might be able to procure pizza for us. We'll compose a pizza order next week.
• Bryce's Basement Committee is hereby activated. Bryce is the chair, and Kenny is a member.
• All graduating Psi Phi members will get to pick a movie to be shown at the end-of-the-semester party, as per long-standing tradition.
• Anti-Joel lets everyone know that his movie pick as a graduating member will be Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Scifi News:

• As we are running out of time, the motion is made to refrain from interruptions while David gives us his news.
• The soundtrack for Star Wars: Episode II will be out April 23.
• MTV's TRL show is showing a music video related to Star Wars titled "Across the Stars."
• The trailer for the sequel to The Matrix will be running with Episode II.
• Next Thursday, FOX will air The Empire Strikes Back. The two Thursdays after that, FOX will air Return of the Jedi, and The Phantom Menace, respectively. Each airing will be three hours long (sorry, Judge Judy's getting pre-empted), and will contain a smattering of footage from Attack of the Clones.
• George Lucas is beginning to talk about the fourth Indiana Jones movie.
• The release of the next Harry Potter novel has been delayed, due to slow going in writing it.
• This Sunday's X-Files will feature an appearance by The Lone Gunmen; next week's will be an episode directed by David Duchovny.
• This Sunday's Futurama will be the season finale, a glorious tribute to/spoof of the original series of Star Trek.
• The sequel to the sleeper sci-fi hit "Dude, Where's My Car?" is slated for release in 2004. Its working title is, "Seriously, Dude, Where's My Car?"
• The Sci Fi Channel is working on a four-hour TV miniseries of Battlestar Galactica. It should be a re-imagining of the show, not a continuation of the old series.
• Angel started new episodes this week. Enterprise and Roswell will air new episodes next week, and Buffy will have a new one the week after that.
• Damon Knight, founder of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, passed away April 15. He was 79.
• Last Saturday, BBCAmerica showed a whole bunch of Monty Python specials. {Spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam!}
• Austin Powers 3 has won back its original title, "Goldmember." The deal that made this possible specified that the trailer for the next James Bond movie gets to run with AP 3, and any future titles containing parodies of the Bond series must get MGM approval beforehand.
• David has one of 35 {yes, 35} collectible issues of next week's TV Guide, celebrating Star Trek's 35th anniversary (which was actually a while ago). Here's the cover breakdown: 7 from TOS, 8 from TNG, 6 from DS9, 7 from VOY, 4 from ENT, and 3 "Trek villians." The lucky three are Q, the Borg Queen, and "KHAAAAN!"
• This shatters the old TV Guide record of 24 collectible covers, appropriately set by The Simpsons.
• Also, the issue has an article about the 35 greatest moments of Star Trek, as chosen by the editors.
• David also has the Spider-Man novelization by Peter David, which is out now.
• David has a copy of ST: Stargazer, Book One: Gauntlet, by Michael Jan Friedman. Both David and Psi Phi are credited in the acknowledgements. Woohoo!
• David has the latest issue of ST: Communicator, which has Dominic Keating on the cover.
• Finally, David has Rising Stars #18 by JMS, which features, in David's own words,

  "FLAMING MALE NUDITY"

  on the cover.
• Ryan reports that William Shatner was on Craig Kilborn this week (though it may have been a rerun). Shatner told the story about the giant ape who grabbed his groin. {It's a groin-grabbingly good story!}
• There will be war this weekend. Joel remarks, "Italy will conquer!" and Bryce and Anti-Joel counter with "Italy [item deleted for security reasons]!"

Adjournment: 10:56:06 (ooogy-boogy-boogy)(yeeeipong)(moonshagger)(cottonseed oil)(I call this meeting to order)(meeting adjourned on account of Bolsheviks)pm