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Minutes of Chapter Meeting, Sept 24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jefreypu@MIT.EDU)
Sun Sep 29 13:31:45 1996
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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 13:31:21 EDT
Minutes of Chapter Meeting (September 24, 1996)
Administrative notes:
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Start: 7:32 pm; End: 9:30 pm. Present: Emily, Alexis, Oscar, Charley,
Junko, Gina, Harry, Ingrid, Rachel, Joe Kuchta, Hannah, Cathy, Jill,
Grant, Michael, Lizzie, Carolyn, Jeffrey, Sparky.
Officers' reports:
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SVP (Alexis): I am paying my dues right now. We have lots of PC's.
We are going to Resolute for Chapter Weekend 1.5 on Oct 11 -
13. Heather P is PC'ing that. Gina is PC'ing Chapter Weekend
II. UMOC has sub PC's. Upcoming projects are Pine Street Inn
on October 5 and Rosie's Place on Oct. 19. Chapter Weekend
I is this weekend.
MVP (Ari): Not Present at the moment. Report is later in minutes.
AVP (Jeffrey): We have newly updated WUAPOs, thanks to all those
who provided updates. The old AVP files are gone, and the new
organized AVP files are here. There are several convenient sec-
tions, like current room reservations, a space for forms needing
corrections, and even a slot for APO quotes. I will be working
on sorting through the Alumni stuff and the database later.
Treasurer (John): (Not present but Emily jumps in for a report)
You should all have paid your dues for the rest of the term. You
must be out of debt to debtlist dues.
FC (Ingrid): We are going to do the Do a nice thing thing. Everyone
puts their name is this box, and everyone draws a name. You
do something cool for that person over the next week.
APOcEd (Hannah): I wanted to put out an Apoc but I haven't
gotten to it yet. There is a poetry contest and only one brother
has submitted an article.
ASC (Lan): I cleaned the office during last week.
PubDir (Oscar): I learned how to sell drop poster paper and I got
clue from Oscar.
Historian (Ingrid): We actually ordered 12 rolls of film and I will
try and figure out what happened to them since our check got
cashed. I am going to propose legislation later to add an Archival
Committee.
Advisory Comm. Chair (Joe): Nothing to Report
Committee reports:
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Chapter Book Committee (Charley): The committee is currently
me. I left the book on the table, it got edited. It should reappear on
the table soon. I am thinking about releasing a version soon. I could
also use an assistant.
Memcomm (Ari): We now have 21 pledges and everyone is going to
be on Memcomm.
Recyclecomm (Alexis): We had a meeting last Thursday. We de-
cided we need more info before we can do anything. The meeting for
Thursday is cancelled.
Sour Food (Jill): Sour Food is in editing. It will get for Steak Fry
next term.
President (Emily): People interested in going to Nationals should
go. People interested in discount travel should come talk to me.
Conclave is on Friday Nov. 1 - Sunday Nov. 3. If you want to
go you should. Section 88 Conclave is being held October 18 -
20. Syracuse is getting a birthday party and they don't know it
yet. If you want to go, you should.
MVP (Ari): Rush is over. We had 19 pledges plus 2 from the pre-
ceding term, 1 is not going to be active so we now have 20
pledges. We have a lot of PC's for projects and we have some
new projects. Here is a long report that thanks people for things
they did and summarizes how things went.
[AVP Note: I will post a copy in the office is there isn't one there
already.]
Hannah: Pledge Article Meal happened. Not as many people came
as I expected, so we had extra food, but we can use that for
Chapter Weekend.
Ari: We have pledges who need big brothers and brothers who need
pledges. I need to know if brothers have an idea of who they
want to be their little. Memcomm will be meeting soon. Pledge
articles will be in the office on Thursday.
Old Business:
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Book Exchange (Carolyn): Book exchange hours were badly sched-
uled. [AVP note: this was due to a bug in an athena program. Kinda
silly isn't it? :)] This means that it conflicts with Chapter Weekend.
We may have to tell people to come back later. People should sign up
for Book Exchange pickup hours.
Officer Installations: Lizzie Dubroff, Carolyn Phillips and Charley
Hamilton were installed as ASC, PubDir, and Historian, respectively.
Advisor List: The list of Advisor's was approved for the fall term.
The list is:
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Joe Kuchta
Dottie Bowe
The Chesnas
Dean Andy Eisenman
Robert Rose
David Staelin
Yale Zussman
Larry Anderson
Chairman of the Advisory Committee Election: Joe Kuchta was
re-elected as Chairman of the Advisory Committee.
New Business:
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UMOC (Jill) We are going to have a really cool UMOC this year. I
still need some PC's. If you are interested talk to me. We are going
to have letters go out to dorms next week. We are going to borrow a
button maker from The Assassin's Guild and make buttons. We will
also have an LSC slide. The rules are done, pending small corrections.
The winner shall also receive a prize named by the UMOC committee.
I need a candidates PC yesterday.
Charley: I would like to recommend that we find out costs before
doing things like buttons.
Rachel: If you sell all the buttons I will be surprised. You should
charge a little more than cost or make less of them. Otherwise
we will be selling buttons at Steak Fry for the next five years.
Ingrid: How do you plan to tell dorms that they can have a jar and
how will they be assuming responsibility?
Jill: I just want a dorm to sponsor a candidate so that they can have
their own jar. It is still the responsibility of the candidate to get
the money to booth during contest hours.
Charley: We could have dorms fill out a form that makes apo not
responsible until the money is given to us.
Rachel: If you give money to somebody with a jar, we have no way of
proving that person is collecting money for UMOC.
Charley: I recommend that we tell candidates what ideas they can
use. If the the candidates want to use them, they can do it.
[AVP Note: Discussion turned to the issue of what to do with T tokens,
game tokens, and other non-money related items. The decided policy
is stated that only donations of US currency are accepted as votes. All
other objects become property of the chapter. If you have any questions
on the UMOC rules, talk to Jill.]
Trinidad Committee (Michael): Trinidad is a small country in the
Carribbean. An AX Alumni wants to start a chapter there and AX is
giving support. I move to allocate $50 from Miscellaneous to Trinidad
Committee for communications and shipping.
Yes - 11, No - 0, Abstain - 0
Archive Committee (Charley): This is the committee I want to
add to the standing committees so that the Historian can get his job
done. I move to form a committee to draft the bylaws amendment.
Yes - 10, No - 0, Abstain - 1
If you want to be on this committee find me offline.
Carnival Committee (Oscar): This is the proposal for carnival as
requested by Exec Comm. The options are 1) Accept this plan. 2) We
do carnival type events at International Fair. 3) Go start the thinking
of Carnival Over. 4) Don't do anything.
Michael: I suggest we decide if we are doing anything first.
Yes - 7, No - 4, Abstain - 0
Ingrid: Lets do a straw poll to see whether we like these ideas, we
want them to go back and rethink this over, or you don't know.
Yes we like this, even if scaled to International Fair - 4, Go back to the
drawing board - 0, I don't know - 5.
[AVP Note: A bit of discussion here, but mostly over fine details which
didn't really answer the question of what we were doing. The following
motion was proposed by Ingrid:]
Move to approve proposal as a working document. They should present
Carnival to the Chapter on October 22, including presenting mailing
materials that will go out to living groups.
Yes - 7, No - 0, Abstain - 2
Oscar: Move to appropriate $50 from Service to Carnival Committee
for materials.
Yes - 8, No - 0, Abstain - 1
Announcements:
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Ingrid: Do something nice for your nice person.
Ari: Talk to the pledges, find a little or find a big.
Michael: Chapter Weekend I is this weekend. Sign up.
Lizzie: Sign up for Book Exchange pickup hours.
Oscar: Carnival Meeting Friday 6PM in the office.
PFTGOTO:
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Hannah: I got two inches done on my sweater I was knitting.
Presidential Quotes of the Day: "Jeff likes the Big One," "7-0-2. It's a
class..."
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