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We gave some Harvard students some math.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Wed Feb 28 20:01:29 2007
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:01:21 -0500
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-minutes@mit.edu
Minutes of Exec Meeting (February 28, 2007)
Administrative notes:
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Start: 7:14 pm
End: 7:55 pm
Present: droshan, holmesmd, hopp, jamwno, jmcquaw, pollardk, riv,
spang | sdmorr
Officers' reports:
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SVP (hopp):
hopp: It happens. Yeah. There's... [interrupted]
riv: We went to the thing with the prisoners.
hopp: We gave some Harvard students some math. Tomorrow we'll
be giving kids some toys. Saturday, we'll be giving
some people some food.
hopp: *points at board* There's a lot of stuff up there. I
need to start planning Big Screw.
holmesmd: Do we have the things reserved?
riv: We could ask the AC. Oh wait... That can be investigated
later... but it should actually be investigated.
austein: Who's the Big Screw chair? I will do *candidates*.
hopp: Alex probably will not want to do manpower after bookex.
hopp: OK, so you'll do candidates. Let's see... there's
candidates, and manpower, and...
riv: I can do publicity.
austein: Whoever's the actual PC should reserve the booth.
austein: That should really, really, really, soon.
MVP (droshan):
droshan: Alrighty. So. I kind of screwed myself over. We
have 18 pledges. We need 18 bigs. It was 15 new
pledges and 3 continuing. Only 1 has actually
continuing. One of the other ones has APO on his
facebook and told one of the pledges. David Nawi told
me he was still thinking, but probably would.
hopp: You can always give people more than one little.
hopp: Why is my butt wet?
jamwno: Maybe having your butt wet is what it means to be from
Maine.
droshan: I was trying to put pledges onto the mailing list but
I didn't know how.
hopp: I did it.
droshan: *to pledges* Send me your schedule.
droshan: Big Little Study Break is next week. Am I doing
that? Can I ask zev to do it? I'm telling zev to do
it.
holmesmd: Or you can just get a PC to do it.
droshan: Does anyone want to PC Big Little Study Break? It
will be at 10, next Wednesday. I will tell your
little is by Saturday.
austein: Back to Big Screw, do we want Monday the 9th through
Friday the 13th?
FVP (zev):
holmesmd: Kendra is PCing Steak Fry. It's March 11. I'm
going to talk to her about how to get meat for that.
zev also wants to print out physical mailings for
alums this week and would like help. Would anyone
here like to help?
riv: I'll talk to him about it.
holmesmd: (to droshan) Oh! zev e-mailed you. He says to
e-mail you because you didn't bring it up. But I'm
too lazy to e-mail you.
jamwno: Can we kick you anyway?
Treasurer (huananz):
holmesmd: He's sad because he has class at 7 and would like to
see if we can change the time. He printed up a new
budget for us to look at.
AC (gregp):
holmesmd: I skipped AC because we don't have an AC. If you
guys know of anyone who might be willing or might be
coerced to being the AC, please poke them...
riv: ... because having one would be nice. Has anyone asked
Yi-Hsin if she wants to be AC? I can ask her if
nobody else wants to ask her.
PubDir (riv):
riv: When I'm not trying to be president, I have ... what did
I do ... I've been talking to people about drop poster
stuff. I still need to be a good person and go to
Pearl and pick up paint. The end.
holmesmd: Oh yeah, people should sign up for office hours,
because people come to us for drop posters.
APOcEd (kkbrown):
OM (ekate):
holmesmd: The OM is also not here.
riv: I cleaned up the table before the meeting.
holmesmd: I cleaned up the table yesterday. When people come
to the office, they should throw their crap out.
Historian (austein):
austein: The roll has been updated with the list of pledges.
I bought batteries. We had pictures.
Advisory Comm. Chair (ccrazy):
holmesmd: Ellen's not here. She's getting her eyes dialated.
riv: There's some video game that's navigated just by
headphones, there's no vision; there should be a blind
van driving video game.
pollardk: Like Super Monkey Balll.
President (holmesmd):
holmesmd: Yeah, I've got nothing.
Committee reports:
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droshan: I don't know what the hell I'm supposed to do as a
chair.
riv: What are you chair of?
droshan: First Aid.
jamwno: Make the First Aid box smell less like first aid?
austein: Back to Big Screw -- only Monday and Tuesday are
available. I guess CPW is taking it up? Sarah, can
you contact the CAC? Online, we would only be able to
reserve two days. Say we're doing Big Screw, the
annual competition that we run for charity, ask if we
should talk to admissions. When we talked to
admissions last year, they were fine with it.
Old Business:
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holmesmd: Do people want to look at the budget and see if it's
acceptable?
jmcquaw: Is anyone here wearing contacts? There's the same
number of people wearing glasses and people not
wearing glasses.
[many note they are wearing contacts]
holmesmd: Any complaints about the budget?
riv: You should think about how much you spend.
jamwno: Do we want to talk about meeting time change? Is that
old?
droshan: I can't make meetings for more than 20 minutes.
holmesmd: I also talked to Ellen and she can't get here before
6:30.
austein: If we do it at 6, and Ellen can't get here until
6:30, how much will she miss?
holmesmd: She'll miss 15 minutes of us waiting for everyone to
get here, and officer reports.
droshan: Is changing it to a different day too drastic?
hopp: I can't change days at all.
holmesmd: I have a quiz every Thursday.
riv: We could move it to 6:30?
jamwno: 6:15-7:15?
holmesmd: So for exec, we want to just move it to 6:30?
droshan: The problem is, the people who can't come can't be
here.
holmesmd: So definitely 6:15 for the next exec meeting, and
there will be an e-mail saying hey, we're proposing
this for chapter meetings.
holmesmd: So questions I have. Rooms for chapter meetings --
I don't know rooms are good.
riv: The really good one is the one the frats take because
it's near the office, right by the elevators. One
thing we could try are the PDRs. We've gotten them
for prospective meetings before.
jamwno: 5-231...
riv: Building 5, second floor is pretty nice. It's nice
getting a room with a table.
riv: It might be nice to have meetings in other rooms. I
don't know.
holmesmd: Joni also e-mailed me and asked us if we were still
interested in putting in a bid for Conclave for this
fall.
riv: My take on this is that if we did it, we'd have a fairly
ok chance of putting together a Conclave, but most of
our actives have never been to a Conclave, so it would
be hard to convince actives to do it.
holmesmd: Most chapters only send 1 or 2 people to Conclaves,
so lots of times it's run by people who haven't been
to one.
riv: I was bouncing the most about it after the last Conclave.
jamwno: Whoever's going to look into this should talk to jtu.
riv: We don't have the best attendance on service projects.
jamwno: The last time section staff "Oh, shit, we need someone
to put together a Conclave bid," she was one of the
people to scramble to put something together.
droshan: One of the pledges was interested in leadership and
interested in doing something higher up.
riv: If you want me to be in charge of this despite my
flakiness in the past, I can.
holmesmd: You're doing a bunch of stuff.
riv: Just because I'm enthusiastic about lots of things
doesn't mean I should do it. People who I've talked
to and seem interested are austein, holmesmd (I can't
[mumble]), hopp, oh right, Conclave of Science...
holmesmd: That's when we wanted to sleep in the Museum of
Science.
riv: ... Mitch, and Vlad. Should we have a Conclave person?
You know people in other chapters even. It's like a
mini-nationals.
[austein shakes head]
riv: I can try to drum up support and see if people are
interested, or just try to poke people in general
about it.
riv: So next week, ask me what I'm going to do about the
Conclave bid. It helps me when I know someone's going
to ask me about it.
holmesmd: Ok, riv will not be lame.
riv: Is the whole dues thing figured out? Because that part
of the bylaws is expired.
riv: *describes submitting pledge forms* There's a little
envelope of pledge forms flying through the air.
hopp: What about this ESP UMass-Amherst thing? ESP as a
general blob wants us... they're doing something at
UMass-Amherst and want us to contact their chapter so
there's some sort of link. What is their e-mail? I'm
just passing on shit from Mitch.
holmesmd: Is there an e-mail? If there's not an e-mail, I'm
not going to remember to do this.
jmcquaw: I can ask ESP for more info.
hopp: I was just told this two seconds before the meeting. We
don't actually know anyone there.
riv: If people want us to do things, they should e-mail apo
rather than e-mailing Mitch.
hopp: I think they might have e-mailed apo.
jamwno: apo is an abstraction. That's all the outside world
needs to know about it.
holmesmd: SWE sent mail to apo-president. I was confused.
New Business:
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Announcements:
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droshan: Food in 10 minutes.
jamwno: I bet there's a service project tomorrow and Saturday.
jamwno: Oh Devon, I'll keep you company.
hopp: 8 in the morning is really early, but we'll be done
really early too.
hopp: So we go to the end of the #1, and we turn off and don't
want to go there.
jamwno: When I PC'd that last time, I put that in the e-mail
and it just happened that the closed-toed shoes in the
cabinet fit her.
jamwno: You're like a meta-volunteer.
hopp: Project tomorrow, meeting in E25; project Saturday, meet
in the office at 8.
holmesmd: And people should fill out big forms.
hopp: Unless you're a pledge.
droshan: And brotherhood requirement forms.
riv: We have enough blue milkcaps to do a milkcap version of
that sign. We need more yellow, or orange would also
work.
jamwno: Do you have good belief you know which chapter you
want to send it to?
riv: There's only one article in the AXcoAPO files that tells
us which chapter it is.
riv: Pledges, digression, we're a dry chapter and we don't
drink alcohol at the events, and other chapters made
fun of us in the 80s.
hopp: Are we done? I want to watch YouTube.
jamwno: Hey hey, what happened to be PFTGOTO?
PFTGOTO:
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hopp: I did better than average on the MCATs. But not enough
to make up for my GPA.
jamwno: Bad Taste!
hopp: Things that you can't do in a pool.
holmesmd: OK, meeting over.
riv: We're singing, right?
holmesmd: It's an exec meeting...
riv: Jim, you're going to ask her to, right?
jamwno: I'm not going to tell her how to run the meeting.
austein: Until we sing, Kevin's not going to stop taking
minutes.
jamwno: You need a vote to stop the meeting.
austein: I move to end the meeting, standing vote.
[austein's phone rings]
austein: Oh, pizza's here.
[no vote or singing occurs]
[austein leaves to get pizza]
