Minutes: Oct. 21, 2001 
Recorded by Cassia Martin 
Sent to hrsfa-announce,22 Oct 2001
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"And so it begins."
Dennis felt the need to start off with a quote from Milk and Cookies the
night before.   
  "It's Canterbury-fucking-tales."   -- Mindy

The hunt:  
  This Saturday, the 27th, there will be full moon.  People will meet at
Lowell P-11 at 8:00 pm to paint themselves blue.  The hunt time itself
will be at 9 pm.  Wear black and blue clothes, as little of it as
possible.
  We will have a small stag eating party, and then segue straight into the
Hour celebrations.

The Coming of the Hour:
   "All Hail Chronos."
   This Sunday, from 2 am to 2 am, for about an hour, we will celebrate
the goodness of Chronos.  Starting at Harvard Hall, we will wear black,
carrry candles, march about the yard, and confuse the drunken freshmen,
and their parents.   And, of course, we will NOT burn a clock, as there is
no open flame allowed in the yard.

(As an aside, Control the Weather SIG would like more people to prepare
for this weekend's activities.  If you are interested, contacted
bmmiller@fas.)

Library:
  A "box" has been obtaining for the purpose of giving away duplicate
books.  
  The best plan for disposing of the ancient computer seems to be to beat
it to pieces with implements of increasing technological complexity.  (Ie,
we start with a club, then move on to an abacus....)  
  More shelving will happen at some point, but not this weekend.

Fall Party:
  Quincy 603.  
  The Quincyites suggested the weekend of nov. 16th as best for them, but
there was much objection to competing with the Harvard-Yale game.  (I
really don't understand why anyone cares, but whatever.)  We proferred the
1st weekend of Dec. as an alternate date, and Aaron Dinkin, our
ambassador, will return with an answer shortly.

Halloween?  
  It's a Wednesday.
  Various scary stuff.
      Harvard College Democrat Elections
      Moira is playing the organ at midnight in Adolfus Busch Hall.
      Possible mini M&C? around 10?
      Rocky Horror Picture Show outing?

Vericon:
 The events page is up, so updating will happen much more often.  
 OT:  Hrsfa.org is also up!  Check it out, and tell starr if you notice
anything that needs correcting.   The Apocrypha needs to be updated,
although I'm not sure when that will happen.
 We need Vericon volunteers!  Talk to twlim.

SIGs:

Angel:  Fredless, 9 pm Lowell Grille, Monday.
Buffy:  Life Serial Tues. 8 pm, Lowell Grille.  
B5:	10 pm, lowell grille to allow for Smallville viewing.
Increasingly Probably Star Trek SIG:  talk to dinkin
MST3K:  met two weeks ago, did the first 1/4 of the movie.  They will meet
	again to revise their riffs and do more.
Noteables SIG:  points out that two people showed up wearing top hats.
Gaming: has been playing far too much Settlers.   They will (did) game
	after Alias, and will hopefully provide something different for
	the pallette.
Bizareness:  Wants to do telepathy table, including postering.  Anyone
	volunteer to organize?
Cool Movie *ig:  Is having an internal debate over what to watch.  
	Everyone is commanded to yell at TseWei to watch the Princess
	Bride. (Bryn has now seen it 50 times.) 
Writers:looked at some stuff. Will meet in Lowell after Reader's Sig. 7 pm
Readers:is getting Bert Vox to come speak.  Tuesday, 6 pm, somewhere in
	Lowell.

Harry Potter outing.  Nov 16th.  email starr@fas

There now officially exists a Lowell House Society of Speculative Fiction,
an evil front to allow us to reserve rooms on a weekly basis, and consume
food in the JCR.

Money:
  We have some.  Paid for in VeriCon sweat and blood.
  Besides being more generous to Fusion, we considered some proposals for
    more cool things HRSFA should do with money. 
     (1)Reimburse all Pandy's membership fees, so we can tell people that
	HRSFA members automatically get discounts at Pandemonium.
     (2)Reimburse SIG leaders for up to $5 worth of munchies if they
	provide the treasurer with receipts.
     (3)Extend the tradition of $1 off all HRSFA events like the Masq to
	include any HRSFA-sponsored events, like official movie outings,
	and the IgNobels.  (Decided by the majority of the officer board.)
  The above movements passed unanimously, with two people also voting
against.  
"We don't like being poor." ==>  "We like not being poor."

			"It's finished."

Cassia Martin,
  infernal secretary

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