Minutes, 4 February 1996 Recorded by Michelle Melendez, mailed to hrsfa-list 5 February --------------------------------------------------- **Minutes of the February 4, 1996 HRSFA meeting at 7pm in Sever 105** **Kevin bangs chair on table in an attempt to bring order, "Is that one of your duties as Co-Chair"** Masque: Amnesty already has Adams house dining hall on the 24th, so a vote is taken, "doesn't give a damn",aka Apathy sig, wins, and we will try to get Lowell Junior common room (were it was held last year) for February 24th. About $30 was approved to buy music, Chris volunteered blank tapes, lights; Al & others volunteered music, etc. Game-a-thon: much fun occured, the winners are Dean's ARS Magica which managed to ensnare 20+ people for 4+ hours, as well as Roborally, and Clayorama. Movie Slot:Our movie slot is May 3,4, which would put us up against _Toy Story_, a vote passed to try and move our movie slot to April 19, 20 (which would be against the Salient [no movies tagged yet]). _12 Monkeys_ also was voted our top choice movie, second place was _Golden Eye_. Library:ideas needed for some sort of study break to introduce Pforzheimer residents to our library, & let them know how wonderful it is to have our library in their house, so they let us stay there forever, and we never have to move the library again! Send ideas to Mike Gleeson, gleeson@fas. Please contact Zil (eslyons@fas) to sign up for office hours! Fusion:give Cyrus (ccmody@fas) stories ASAP! Don't worry if they are not polished, they can be polished up at the next Writer's sig meeting. Writer's: Interested people e-mail ajweinst@fas your schedule so a meeting time/day can be arranged, location will be Loker Commons. Want people, readers, editors, writers and the curious are encouraged. Piracy:shades of illegality were pondered, official policy is to have TV shows and movies that we can't normally get and that are not available to be purchased. If we do have tapes that can be purchased it is because we have forgotten to blank them. T-shirt:planning meeting will be this sunday February 11th at 7pm in Lowell O-24 Bizzarreness: announced that that ammendments to a secret section of the constitution will occur next meeting. Brattle: Is showing really cool movies this week! Support the Brattle. Showing schedule will be e-mailed to hrsfa-list. www.boston.com =movie listings locations and times (Boston Gloge site). 24hr President's day weekend sf movie marathon: noon Sunday Feb 18th till noon Monday Feb 19th, theme=time travel, featuring _Time and Again_, _Time Bandits_, etc. Tickets $24?,contact Matt Duhan(fringe@cybercom.net). Unofficial Cool Movie p:Will show _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ this Wednesday. BBC:Has officially changed its meeting day to Saturdays at 1pm, currrently in Winthrop, but perhaps moving to Dunster. Last week showed Red Dwarf, & an academy award winning piece (Wallace&Grommet?, The Wrong Trousers?) about a clay man and his dog. Star Trek:last week:DS9: Odo agonsized over feelings for Kira;Voyager: Paris (d)evolved into a lizzard; This week Tvok mind melds with ___ and has problems disconnecting. MST3K:meets in Currier House (Cabot TV=broken)last week showed _Manos the Hands of Fate_ (bad movie,good MSTing), This week= _Monster of Go Go_. Gaming SiG ARS Magica:brought cauldron to dragon and did not get eaten. Gurps illuminati:Special pilaf incites people to dance, squirrels... Battletek: . . . Dark Sun: no one died, Alexei did not flee until after evreyone died? Warhamer:will occur if interest warrants. Mah Jong:proves to be addictive. Paranoia: will occur if Kevin drops his thesis, Theme=Computer is your friend who wants you to be happy, if you are not happy you are used as reactor sheilding. Filk:"the bastard child of not quite music" sf parodies to folk music, has determined to finally meet, e-mail ajweinst@fas if interested. Comics:will meet within the next 6 weeks, library got new donations, Alexei and Susannah volunteer to lend out their comics. Marvel got the license to make Star Trek Comics, 1st title "Star Trek X-men". Nominations stuff: (for official nominations/election info stay tunned for Kevin's posts) Duties of officers (once again) Co-Chairs:In charge of all of HRSFA. External Secretary: Movies (if we wver have a convention this position would be very important, even more important if hrsfa succeeds from the U.S.A., sells citizenships, legalizes pot, pirates whatever we want... Internal Secretary: Minutes! Editor-in Chief:begging, Fusion, and all of our publications. Treasurer:never coming to meetings, bank books, ID cards. Quotes: "Yes in fact the HRSFA treasurer hates being poor" "People will ask you at elections, 'What is your favorite position?'" "May I point out that The Purple Chair is not a sentient being?" "Who is Claudia Ender?" -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nominations for 1996 hrsfa officers (9th board) I apologize in advance to all the people whose names I am about to slaughter (The scapegoat made me do it). Co-Chairs: Scapegoat: Chris Hall Rachel Aronin Aaron Mandel Sydney Freedberg Kyle Niedzwiecki Rory Gormley Alan Sundell Shane Owara Alexei Tymoczko James Vaughn Sergeant-at-Arms: (various inanimate objects) Matt Ender External Secretary: Tyg's Car (lobby parking?) Rory Gormley Aaron Landry Aaron Mandel Susannah Mandel Eliot Marks Kyle Niedzwiecki Mascot: Alan Sundell Al Elia Alexei Tymoczko Levi James Vaughn Sammy Genstein Mike Gleeson Internal Secretary: Erik Hendrickson's 8 ball Susan Groppi The Purple Chair (wants tribute) Eliot Marks Kyle Niedzwiecki Puppet Dictator: Julia Starkey Chase Tingley James Vaughn Muppet Dictator: Editor in Chief: Elmo Susan Groppi Susannah Mandel Most Looking Like HRSFA Alum: Cyrus Mody Alexei Tymoczko (Carl) Alan Sundell Eliot Marks (Sydney) Alexei Tymoczko James Vaughn Death: Tyg "I'm not wearing a black leotard" Treasurer: Chris Hall Freshness & Fullness of Life: Eli Lebow Mentos Chris Manning Eliot Marks Most Swa: Ny Martin Chris Hernandez Kyle Niedzwiecki Shane Owara Minister of Love: James Vaughn Rose Cutest Couple: Matt Duhan + Tara Loewig Al Elia + Levi Sonic Master: Matt Ender Claudia Mastroianni Lori Rikard Munchies: Susannah Mandel ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the words of my esteemed predessesor,"'That's the minutes, and I am outta here.'" -michelle- (soon to be ex-infernal secretary)