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Minutes of 3/17 chapter meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (baspitz@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sun Mar 28 20:40:23 1993
From: baspitz@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: apo-minutes@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 93 20:39:58 EST
Minutes of Chapter Meeting (Wed., March 17, 1993)
*Administrative notes:
Start: 7:12 pm; End: 8:00 pm. Present:
Crystal, Ezra, Ping, Yale, Kevin Dahm, Traci Williams, Tracy Vogler,
Alan, Jerry Lin, John McClain, Jen'n, Rachel Caileff, Ann Yen,
Bridget.
*Officers' reports:
*SVP's report:
It's wet outside. Unfortunately the AIDS Awareness project on
Saturday was cancelled. We seem to be having a rash of freak
snowstorms. Who would be interested in having the AIDS awareness
meeting on a weeknight?
I talked to Scott. Training for the Ride Board project will be done
on Monday. We will e-mail what time.
After Spring Break is Big Screw. There will be a project at Boston
Food Bank before Steak Fry. Tomorrow night at 9:00 there will be a
study break in the building 26 elevator.
*MVP's report:
Not present. (Home, sick.)
*AVP's report:
I went to the annual scheduling meeting, but it was cancelled and has
not been rescheduled. They're just going to mail things instead.
*Treasurer's report:
Not present. (In Dublin.)
*Fellowship Chair's report:
Not present.
*APOcEd's report:
Not present.
*ASC's report:
I don't really have anything to report. I'm glad the Book Exchange
books will be out of my domain soon.
*PubDir's report:
Not present. (Written report.)
I changed the board again. Sorry that the screw is wrinkled.
I'm making a trip to Pearl (Arts & Crafts) over break; if anyone
can think of stuff we need there, please leave a note for me.
Amy.
*Historian's report:
Nothing to report. Someone left me a note (presumably as Book
Exchange treasurer) which had only the title of a book, a name, and a
page number. What does it mean?
*Advisor's report:
(Yale.) I stayed home Saturday because of the storm.
*Committee reports:
*Book Exchange:
Book Exchange books theoretically go away in three days. (They will.)
Book Exchange money theoretically goes away in three days. (It won't
actually.) If you know anyone who hasn't picked up books, tell them!
The Book Exchange money should probably be donated this term.
Traci: Where do the books go? (Mass. Academy)
Ann: I've got the first bunch of cancelled checks.
*Social chair:
Thanks to ExecComm for taking Steak Fry on their shoulders, from the bottom
of my heart.
Don't ever become a grad TA.
I need an I-Banquet PC. If you PC it, you might be able to convince
people to have it somewhere other than Ashdown.
Yale: You might want to get a place before you look for a PC.
Ezra: Ashdown has started charging a lot.
Alan: Ashdown always charged a lot, but we used to grease our way
through it.
*Big Screw
Jerry: Sign up! There's a sign-up sheet posted in the office.
*President's report:
I've had a hard week, but that's beside the point. I need people to...
to help me finish this sentence... to do NomComm! That's the Nominations
Committee, the group who encourages people to run or to think about
running. They should try to approach everybody in the chapter.
Ping: And anyone can nominate themselves, NomComm just encourages
people to run.
Jen'n: People who are eligible to run: brothers who will be an active
brother next term.
Crystal: At the same meeting as nominations will be DSK's, given for
Long Distinguished service. People argue every term about what
that means... I'm planning on getting shingles off this week. If
there's anything you want done over Spring Break, see me.
*New Business:
*Discussion of ASA Room Allocation Policy:
Ezra: From the last ASA general body meeting. The main points to
remember are:
(1) The ultimate decision is made by the Exec Board with
an appeals process; this is pretty normal. The guidelines are just
that: guidelines.
(2) There is no point value given for current occupation of the room,
nor for outside-the-community activities.
If ASA gets apathetic again, the policy could be troublesome. Currently
it's ok. The next meeting will probably be in April.
Yale: Section 3a creates three groups of activities. If we were the only
large organization that did every wonderful thing in section 7, fine; if we're
in the same bunch as LSC, the Tech, other groups with large offices, then
one of those organizations is likely to get nailed.
Ezra: btw, ASA is fairly well balanced this term. With this new
policy, every three years we'd need to fill out a lot of paperwork.
The current situation has been you have an office for life unless you
really screw up; to get an office you need major grease... or just
move in like Counterpoint did.
Alan: There are no squatters' rights, nothing to keep them from
changing which office you get. It also allows the ASA to be
completely arbitrary. Too abusable.
Ping: You can appeal to a dean though. We have the press, that's effective
squatters' rights.
John: Taking a Machiavellian POV: of LSC, the Tech, Technique, APO,
and MITSFS, we're at the bottom in visibility. If we had to compete
my guess is we'd end up losing.
Jen'n: They're probably not going to put up all the corner offices at once.
The reality, I think, is we'd end up sharing.
Ezra: The deans' office doesn't care unless you're being outright
machiavellian. You could appeal to the General Body, but it's been
incredibly apathetic in the past. We may not be greasy in the future.
Ping: I agree with John but we wouldn't be competing with them, we
don't want their offices. We might be asked (Ezra: *Told*...) to
share the office with a similar group.
Yale: The Tech will want theirs, we'll want ours, no question. But
the number of large activities each year is different from the number
of large rooms. That issue will happen the first time only. Then
we'd compete with new groups, that don't have offices yet.
Traci: We're not competing with big groups... they'd split ours into
five little offices.
John: If the ASA screws up implementation, we'll be on the losing end.
We should have sure the split is the same.
Ping: The rooms are being divided, not the activities. Any activity
can apply for a room in any year.
Jen'n: Currently all offices have groups attached, we're concerned about
the first cut; e.g. we have two years, the Tech has one year..
Ezra: Large groups without offices will apply year after year. If
there's 3 incumbent groups one year, each is safer than a single
group. Historically, if GenComm isn't clueful, the ExecBoard can do
what it wants. Every three years we have to apply with the horde as
though we don't have an office.
Yale: Not a compelling concern if we maintain a reasonable level of activity.
If, as Ping says, the big offices are up in a block every three years, they
don't have to worry; otherwise small groups whose leases expire could work
up to larger offices.
John: Since there's no advantage to being old, the system is unstable.
We could use that as an argument against it. :)
Ping: Suggest we terminate discussion, unles someone wants to make
amendments.
Rachel: Section 7c: you can get up to 4 points for being in an office and
``being good.'' And another 2 points for not breaking rules.
Alan: How can we make amendments?
Ezra: Pass them on to our representative [e.g. email to
baspitz@athena] to bring up in an ASA meeting. The meetings are open.
*Announcements
Jen'n: Next week, the Ride Board shall be finished by your industrious
hands. Come to be trained on Monday. After it's done we can have an
unveiling study break.
John: Can brothers run for Big Screw? (No, sorry..) I-Banquet PC: I
need one. Fun. Exciting. Doesn't pay well.
Rachel: We will be silkscreening T-shirts Sunday at 1. If you are coming
let me know. We will meet in the office.
Ping: The April WUAPO will get going over spring break.
Ezra: Book Exchange pickup ends in three days. Tell people.
Tracy: BU is having a Boy Scout decathalon on April 3rd. We have a
project at the same time. If anyone else is interested, let me know.
Jen'n: Study break... Tomorrow night, 9:00 in the building 26 elevator.
Kevin: Two weeks after Steak Fry is Chapter Weekend II. I guess I'm
PCing it. I need Transport, Food, and posibly Manpower subPC's.
*PFTGOTO
(Steve enters.)
John: Thanks to ExecComm.
Jen'n: Thanks to PC's and attempted PC's: Kevin, Scott, Sara, Darlene,
Amy. Pledge Project is coming up. Next Tuesday is Happy Birthday Moose.
Steve: Hi, I'll be visiting the chapter at the chapter meeting. Every
time I've walked down the Infinite Corridor, the board's been different!
Wonderful!
Amy: Isn't Yale's birthday next Wednesday? (people sing)
John: Thanks to Daniel who PC'd through snow and sleet and dark of
night, carrying 100 CDs from whatever dorm he lives in in the snow and
driving rain.
Ping: Best wishes to brothers dying in classes.
Alan: Happy St. Pat's Day!
