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MITSFS Meeting Minutes

Friday, April 7, 2000




MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST, Jenwa Hsung, President and Skinner, presiding. Natasha Olchanski is the Onseck.

Minutes read.

M: to embarrass the onseck. Passes.

BING!

Committee Reports

Mobcomm: Space-Crime Continuum books are here.

Aloha Lenscomm: JFC took a picture of Ed. (It even includes the face.)

Pseudo-panthercomm: books got processed.

Pseudo-pianocomm: Stephanie is not lame!

LHE: we don't have a statement from February.

Pseudo-hasslecomm: Hasslecomm pile is overflowing.

Pseudo-mobcomm: we have decided to acquire some graphic novels- the Sandman comics.

Sitcomm: "Secret Agent Man" (TV so bad it hurts (TM)) got cancelled. Discussion of whether the show is better or not than a test pattern.

WDS: "Very, very poor man's James Bond."

JM: "I'd like the water shaken, not stirred."

BING!

Old Business

None.

BING!

New Business

Jen Chung, new keyholder, gets her pic taken.

Prefrosh are here.

JPW: "They are not as scary as frosh."

Someone was flaming about some parent commenting "It's good for the prefrosh to not be allowed off-campus, especially the girls."

BING!

Future Business

Discussion of Ana- possibility to get her as prentice- she doesn't want to sink more hours into more activities she does Shakespeare Ensemble.

M: retroactively destroy Shakespeare. 8-2-0 +Spehn.

M: commend Jade for fantasizing out loud during business. 8-0-2 +Spehn.

M: get a banana to be a LHE. Fails for lack of second.

M: get banana to be skinner (after Jade). Chickens 4-2-6 +Spehn.

BING!

Time Warp to Committee Reports

Sitcomm: JFC watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Moocomm: Princess Mononoke is showing at LSC on Saturday- translated by Neil Gaiman- very good movie.

BING!

Time Warp to Old Business

Can someone get a permanent membership on layaway plan?

Can someone get a mortgage on a permanent membership?

JM: "Some of the stories in the old Twilight Zine are actually pretty good."

BING!

Time Warp to Future Business

M: bananas in the world- chickens.

M: replace JFC's middle name with a banana. 7-0-3 +Spehn.



Meeting adjourned, 1740 SST.




Respectfully submitted,
Natasha Olchanski, Onseck