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Minutes, 2-21-95 Chapter Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cmcoury@MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 27 14:35:37 1995
From: cmcoury@MIT.EDU
To: apo-minutes@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 14:34:50 EST
Minutes of Chapter Meeting (February 21, 1995)
Administrative notes:
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Start: 7:30 pm; End: 9:15pm. Present: Harry, Junko, Bob, Susan, Joe
K., Ingrid, John, Dave, Richard, Alexis, Barbara, Manjari, Jeffrey,
Karen, Bridget, Cathy, Charley, Amy, Sparky, Emily, Kate
Officers' reports:
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SVP (Charley): Big Screw rules are out. Chapter Skills Weekend the
4th of March. Kate will teach printing. Jen'n will teach CPR.
Joe, please do instructor training. Shelter, Inc. signup is here.
MVP (Emily): Pledge ceremonies happened. We have 11 pledges, 4
of whom are here. Yay. Wednesday is the Big Brother/Little
Brother study break. It's at 7:30 now. Next Monday is Pledge
Article Meal. Two pledges have already submitted articles.
AVP (Cathy): nothing to report
Treasurer (Harry): Come and see me about dues if you want to be
active and haven't. DJR order goes out tomorrow.
FC (Karen): Big Brother/Little Brother study break tomorrow. I
don't know if Burton-Conner is available for Semi-Formal For-
mal. There would be a $50 deposit, most of which would come
back. If anyone wants a random study break, such as Building
26 elevator or Mardi Gras, please let me know and we'll arrange
a date.
APOcEd (Barbara): nothing to report
ASC (Junko): nothing to report
PubDir (Elaine): I am not here. I bought paints. Admire the Infinite
Corridor board.
Historian (Jeffrey): I am still getting used to my role. Therefore,
the chapter camera was not at Chapter Weekend I. I updated
the homepage. All officers are who they are supposed to be.
Advisory Comm. Chair (Joe): nothing to report
President (Bridget): I found a thesis advisor. I will check with
the ASA about funds for the flammables cabinet. There is a
safety committee inspection tomorrow. Clean up. Housekeeping
usually is the biggest problem. Officers should sign up for office
hours. I will look into revising the chapter book. Now it is
mainly a list of things officers should do.
Committee reports:
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Book Exchange: There were 31 comic books stolen from Book Ex-
change, worth a total of $30-$40. Can we take responsibility for
comics in the future?
Charley: The back door was unlocked the entire time. People could
get things the entire time that we weren't in the room. We may
want to consider not selling comics.
Ping: If anyone had come in through the back door, they would not
have taken comics. People can be more vigilant. Future Book
Exchange chairs should consider a statement to the effect that
we won't take responsibility for comics.
Karen: Though it may take more manpower than we have, perhaps
we should have an extra person working walking about. Make
sure comics are closer to the door than textbooks.
Richard: Face workers toward room. Have comics by the desk.
Ping: People face the doors to control the flow of traffic.
Screwcomm: We now have a cover letter, rules, and candidate form,
which hasn't changed. The rules are essentially identical. The
letter is new. (Susan reads rules.)
Ingrid: I took the candidate forms to the course 1 office. They were
sad that they had to give up the award so soon. I said that I had
taken 1.00 last term, and that they were definitely deserving.
Ping: I would like to friendly amend tax-deductible to IRS 501(c).
(Accepted.)
Kate: Do we want to reserve the right to approve the charity?
Dave: Add to the section on charities, subject to approval by Screw-
comm.
Motion to accept the rules for 1995 Big Screw passes, 11-0-1.
New Business:
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Emily: This voting policy change involves highlighted section in mid-
dle. Voting period will run from 6 pm Monday, May 8 to 6 pm
Monday, May 15. Note that the voting perion is 1 week long, as
opposed to the previous 72 hours and closer to the traditional
14 days.
Ping: I would like to friendly amend the three weeks before elections
period for which one has to be active to five weeks before Pledge
Term Review. (Accepted.)
Motion to pass voting policy passes, 10-0-3.
Sparky: Larry is stepping down as section chair. We need to vote on
a replacement. It will not be me. Sharon Zohar, from Connecti-
cut, is running. She helped with Yale's charter.
Ping: Put voting delegates for Conclave and candidates on next meet-
ing's agenda.
Announcements:
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Alexis: There are three Tootsie Pops left.
Barbara: Amy is the winner of the one sentence contest in the APOc.
Richard: The local Latex expert would like to have a discussion woth
you on how to typeset quotation marks.
Barbara: I had to concatenate the file. We will talk about this later.
Ingrid: Kevin is my big brother.
Junko: Project this Saturday.
Cathy: Sign up for Conclave.
Bob: I am food chair.
Barbara: APOc distributors will find their APOcs on the message
board under their name.
Charley: Chapter Skills Weekend March 4. Time to be announced.
PFTGOTO:
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Ping: Teach the skill to say no within APO. The pledges need to learn
this.
Sparky: There is a birthday tomorrow.
(Everyone sings happy birthday to Kate.)
Jeffrey: If you need a PC, ask Bob. When asked to food PC Chapter
Weekend I, he said, "Sure. What have I gotten myself into?"
Bob: I've learned.
Meeting adjourned to fellowship circle at 9:15.
