Minutes, 2.24.02 From: Kaitlin Branson Heller Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 13:31:10 EST --------------------------------------------------- The meeting gathered momentum as Bryn gave the Infernal bunny ears, Tony was reminded that he needs to get a damn pen to make membership cards, and Erin recounted the tale of Neil and the Fried Egg and demonstrated her skills with the co-chair staff. One of the co-chairs was nearly late: Dennis (entering): I'm here to have an argument. Tony and Warren (loudly): YOU STUPID GIT!!! *... dennis leaves* The co-chair staff was duly pounded on the floor. Thus did the meeting begin. **BUSINESS** 1. COMPUTER MONITOR DESTRUCTION. Tse Wei's roommate has a monitor to donate for destruction. The steps of widener were suggested for this purpose. It was advise that we must remember to clean up toxic bits of the monitor when we are done. We were looking for someone to take charge of this when ... Dev enters (with Lis, of course). the entire room shouts "DEV!!!" and bursts into applause. ... He graciously accepts the office. 2. MASQUERADE. Masq was scheduled for the 2nd. The will of the people was that we should hold it on the 16th. Unfortunately, the forces of darkness were unable to secure this date, and the Masq will still be held THIS SATURDAY, March 2. 3. PROXY VOTING. At the next regular meeting (the meeting directly after non-con elections), we will discuss a constitutional amendment to take care of this issue. Dennis wants to simply reinterpret the constitution to fix this (due to too many hours in Warren Court, no doubt). The proposed amendment will say something like this: for the purposes of voting, the term "voting member" can be either an undergrad HRSFA member or a HRSFA member present at the meeting at which the vote takes place. 4. BLOCKING PARTY. Last year, there was a party before blocking. HRSFA approves of parties. Therefore, we will hold the party in the Lowell JCR this year, the day before blocking assignments are sent out. It was noted that it is a good thing that some HRSFAn were quaded to protect the library. 5. TELEPATHY TABLE. We like telepathy table but we need someone to be in charge. "Respond to Dennis telepathically." - Tony "Dennis, what *is* that between your teeth?" - Cassia, telepathically ... Charles will take charge of this and make a date. He will also poster / announce for this. 6. CYBORG SPEAKING PERSON. The talk will be on Wednesday at 4 pm in the Barker center. This is the first time in a while we've had a faculty member actively interested in us, so it would be nice if people would go and talk to her. Interested parties can talk to Charles. 7. DEV'S GUITAR. Dev is considering selling his guitar, which is in good condition except for a ripped-out bridge (which makes it useless). HRSFA won't buy it, of course, because HRSFA hates being poor, but Dev has graciously agreed to donate it should it win for the position of mascot. This issue shelved pending the outcome of Sunday's elections. 8. LIBRARY. Librarian respectfully requested a cleanup for this Sunday afternoon. Please contact Rebecca (rmckeown@fas). "Let it be noted that Kartik will bring e to the library." - Dennis **SIG REPORTS** -NOTEABLES have a concert this Saturday at 3 pm in the Quincy JCR. Noteables SIG also scared the heck out of Erin and Kristin. There was an officerial dispute as to whether or not this was actually a SIG; against the wishes of the co-chair, Infernal recognized it anyway. "You know what this means? This means we get $5 munchie money each week!" - Rebecca -wSIG planned to take place Thursday 9:30ish, but Cool Movies objected. Therefore, it might be moved (email should come out later). Ben and Kartik will have a duel to the death with Starr and Dev over the timeslot, outside of the meeting. -COOL MOVIES showed American Psycho, which was supposedly pretty cool. This Thursday there will be American History X. Someone made a motion to start watching all the recent movies whose titles begin with American, which was promptly lost in the enormous cuteness of Lis and Dev. -STAR TREK SIGGIE THINGY. This week's episode involved some Vulcans renouncing renouncing their emotions. This week the SIG will probably not watch at 8 on Wednesday, as the SIG leader is busy, but it will be taped and watched later. -BUFFY/ANGEL. Angel will be at 9 on Monday in the Grille. SIG leader plans to get there early to preempt the wrestler people. Buffy will be at 8 on Tuesday in the JCR. Apparently, Riley is back. -GAMING. Diplomacy happened. Tony got a solo victory. He is proud. -ANIME. The few who attended KatsuCon asked for more people to attend. It seems no anime was watched at this con. Sneaky. -MILK & COOKIES met Friday. It was fun despite blasted carpet cleaning in the JCR. The people cry out for another one asap, perhaps march 7 & 8. -READERS is still in stasis due to lack of a leader. Interested parties should talk to Dennis (dclark@fas). -VERICON has no announcements yet but will bug people about it. Dan notes that the Leverett senior tutor is a sci fi fan, and we should be recruiting her. ... There was a laptop minute. And then ... ****!!NON-CONS!!**** "If you'd all shut up for half a second -- 'cause i know you're not gonna shut up for another 3 hours ... - Dennis ... There were some rules, surprisingly ... "What is a scapegoat?" asked Ben. For the record, Dennis replies: The scapegoat is a particular non-con position in HRSFA, the person on whom the officers and membership blame everything. The scapegoat shall not be an officer, because the officers specifically are supposed to blame the scapegoat. "You may decline nominations if they would cause you great emotional trauma. Otherwise, suck it up and deal." - Kaitlin ... And of course, there was hilarity, riot, recursion, sex, recursion, and lime tostitos ... Tony: I nominate Apathy SIG for ... oh, never mind. Bryn: I'd second that, but I just can't bring myself to. (after Bitch with a Stick nominations:) Dennis: And the stick is me? HRSFAn: No. Dennis: Good. Kaitlin: I nominate Dennis for the stick! Dennis: I nominate Fuck You All for the stick! *** ... The meeting eventually got kicked out around 9 pm and disbanded to play lots of games, leaving the officers to complete their Trial By Fire. Which they did. The non-constitutional nominations will therefore be posted at: http://www.hrsfa.org/nonconcs.html [sic] just as soon as the webmistress can do it. Non-constitutional elections will take place this Sunday in Sever 110 at 7 pm. Let the politicking begin. Kaitlin Heller Infernal Secretary [This is the HRSFA announcement list. 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