Minutes, 1998-03-08
Recorded by Lori Ricard
Sent to hrsfa-announce Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:30

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Meeting opened at 6:15 with old business.

Shelves from Pandemonium:  
Tyler is willing to sell us some of his old
shelves for $25/each.  They must be removed some random Sunday night in
April, depending upon when he gets sick of them. We vote to buy 2.

Masq:
We can have Loker for the Masq if we don't charge admission, but have a
"suggested donation."  Sounds good to us.
We need a music director!!  If you want to do music, contact Kyle
(kniedzw@fas).
We decide that Sat. April 4 is a good day.

Spring Party:
Judging from our progress on the Masq, perhaps we should have it in
September.  Does anyone have a room to spare?  I will post this request
separately so it doesn't get lost in the minutes.

Myld Hunt:
Chris Hall will run it.

Prefrosh weekend:
We want to have a mini-gameathon.  Aaron Landry will run it.  There may be
an activities fair that we will want to table at and Matt Withers will
find out about it and tell us later.

Asimov Science Fiction Magazine:
Our subscription is running out.  Before we vote whether or not to renew
it, Kyle launches into a Lee Valentine story about Isaac Asimov.  When Lee
Valentine was a co-chair he tried to get Asimov to come and speak with us.
Since Asimov's number was unlisted, he called all the people in New York
who could have possibly have been Asimov's wife.  Asimov called back and
ranted for about five minutes on Lee Valentine's answering machine.  We
want a copy of this tape.  

"I think that we should dance on his grave."  Kyle

We promptly vote into being a Dancing-on-Isaac-Asimov's-grave SIG.  We
also vote to renew the subscription for a year.

SIG Reports:
Asimov grave sig:  We will have a field trip to dance on Asimov's grave.
	Contact Aaron Landry.
Bab5:  Pen and Teller on Bab5 this week.
Psig:  Will post soon.  Psig formally protests Kyle's nomination of
	Co-wank Emeritus.  They invented the title of Wank.  Kyle responds that
	actually he made the administrative decision to elect Kevin Martin Wank
	Emeritus.
Writer's SIG:  Met last Monday and there were people there.  It will meet
	tomorrow.
Elvish Orthography:  It still exists.  I missed the ensuing joke in the
	general hysteria.
Star Trek:  Mostly defunct.  Igor swears to resurrect it.  
Anime:  Will also be resurrected.
Milk & Cookies:  "There were stories and they were nice."  Ender

There was a proposal, which I found magnificent but didn't succeed, to
shorten Gaming Sig reports to "hosed or not hosed."  Instead, summaries
were spit out at the speed of lightning, so I will report the arbitrary
sentences which I managed to jot down.  Slightly insincere apologies to
the respective games.

Matt is starting (or continuing) a Watership Downs game.
Lords of Chaos is still meeting.  Kyle accidentally set someone on fire.
Champions:  Rob is hosed.
Talismans of Power:  fighting multiple gods

NON-CONSTITUTIONAL ELECTIONS

SCAPEGOAT:
SONYA HENDREN

MASCOT:
DR. WHO SCARF

PRESIDENT:
In a dramatic runoff between Cthulu and Thomas Jefferson, JEFFERSON wins.

PUPPET DICTATOR:
Someone at the back of the room promptly buys a membership so he can vote.
While Chris and I converge upon him to get his rank and serial number (and
more importantly, money), the room elects CHASE TINGLEY.

MUPPET DICTATOR:
YODA

GOD AND HIS PROPHET:
"You will all perish." Kyle, when he and his god, KNiedzwiecki, lose.
After a runoff between Science! and Aaron, SCIENCE! and its prophet, BILL
NYE win.

PUMPKIN KING:
DEVIN LOW

DWERIN:
We vote that this category is stupid.

COWANK EMERITUS:
KYLE NIEDZWIECKI

LOIS LANE:
SONYA HENDREN

ORTHOGRAPHY DICTATOR:
ELI LEBOW

ALAN GREENSPAN:
MARTY FELDSTEIN

7PM DICTATOR:
CHRIS HALL

BLONDE CONSPIRACY:
Matt Ender gabbles unintelligibly and shows a notebook with a speech on
it.  We vote that there is no blonde conspiracy.

SUPERMAN:
After several votes and a failed attempt to fly by Marshall Perrin, we
decide that there will be no Superman.

CO-CHAIN:
ELI LEBOW & NILS BARTH

POLITBURO:
THE AD BOARD

We all stared in dismay at the number of categories left, and vote to
group all the Tom Lotze candidacy/inspired categories into one election.
We vote his various categories (such as Fool, Devil's Advocate, etc.) into
office.  If anyone really wants the list, I'll give it to you.

SAGE OF THE YEAR:
CHRIS MANNING

RANDOM ANSWER GUY:
CHRIS MANNING

WARMASTER:
After one vote, there was a runoff between Mother Theresa and Devin Low.  
Chris Hall: "Did *Miss* Theresa have any kids?"
Miss Theresa wins.

The next meeting with be Sunday, March 29, the last day of Spring Break.

The meeting ended sometime around 7:30 in favor of munchies.


---Lori