MIT Science Fiction Society

84 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139



MITSFS Meeting Minutes

Friday, September 30, 1983




MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST, Tim Huckelbery, President and Skinner, presiding.

(JME) Note: TLH delayed the meeting to read Bloom County. (He laughed.)

(GF) Move to accept minutes as incomprehensible except for the Onseck. Passes 13-0-3 +Spehn.

BING!

Committee Reports

(JME) Moocomm: Brainstorm, a movie coming out, pointed out a discrepancy in science- hitting one person's knee and another's leg goes up.

(JME) Jourcomm: Will be printed on Sunday.

(PS) Lasercomm: Constellation II was. (Note by TLH- pretty good.)

(JME) Ourgreatestenemycomm: saga of SAA continues. (Note: strongest conclusion- if the Dean's office interferes so much with the ASA, maybe the ASA shouldn't exist.)

(TLH) Cartooncomm: Bill Spitzak starts another satire- "Satire of the Jeti."

(JME) Badcartooncomm: Carol Yao is back.

(JME) Move to censure Carol Yao for giving Tech coeds a bad name. Passes (Skinner too lazy to count the vote).

(TLH) Lecturecomm: Douglas Adams next week.

(TLH) Shelfcomm: They're in. They won't be. They stink.

(JME) Fairytalecomm: Newly discovered Grimm's fairy tale found- will be illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

BING!

Old Business

(JME) Thanks to JS we now have transcriptions and tapes of old meetings.

OBA, usual everything.

BING!

New Business

(GF) Minicult: Among the new stories in Locus, Zelazny sold 3 more Amber novels for 6 figures. Rumor that Philip K. Dick isn't dead. Herbert sold Dune 6 for 7 figures. Tolkien (dead) has 2 more books coming out.

(JME) Report through Haldeman on Last Dangerous Visions.

(TLH) Note: LSC lecture ballots out soon. Haldeman and Pournelle are on it.

(JME) Phonecomm: Ring!

(GF) Minicult: Twilight Zone- someone referred to Jabba the Hutt as Boba Fett.

(JME) Move to condemn Dave for wearing a tie. Passes unanimously.

(JME) Motion to have the LSC ballots put on banana colored paper. Passes, so there.



Meeting adjourned, 1715 SST.




Andy Su, Onseck