MIT Science Fiction Society
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MITSFS Meeting Minutes
Friday, March 28, 2003
Special, Pre-meeting quote: ``Evil in a good way.''
MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST March 28th, 2003, with Ed Keyes as the presiding president and skinner. Andrew Clough is the apocalyptic Onseck. Minutes are read.
Motion: Condemn the minutes as needing corrections. Passes 4-0-0+Spehn
BING!
Mobcomm1: New books, but a rather small pile.
Mobcomm2: We got 7 proof copies of recent books, though
Mobcomm3: One of these is the proof copy of...Acorna's Rebels!
Mobcomm4: We ordered lots of Dr. Who books. They are now being held hostage in the UA office.
Since I'm lucky enough to be Onseck I don't have to mention Jamie remark about ``Girl and Horse Stories.''
Meeting falls into the dulldrums of serious business, which not be further discussed here.
BING!
Patent 4187635 issued 1980, describes the Zube Tube, which sounds like a futuristic ray-gun.
Motion: Us the Zube Tube to supplement the Gavel. Passes 5-3-1+Spehn
BING! Zhoong
Bondagecomm2: We'll take the boxes of books in to ACME.
Discussion of book covers, good and bad. I make an observation that good books often have bad covers, and vice versa. As proof, in book 7 of the Wheel of Time the cover actually started to reflect the author's descriptions of the characters, just as the series got boring.
Theftcomm: Rotation of the TIF in 3 weeks.
BING! Zhoong
Motion: Blast the UA with the ray gun. Passes 7-0-5+Spehn
Discussion of Slinky murder, and ``all plastic lifeforms are known to eat their young.''
BING! Zhoong
Someone has offered to donate, and we're planning to take him up, especially since we have all this new space.
The evil plan for MITSFS:EC continues. Maybe if we didn't collect books there, it wouldn't hurt our fines income.
Motion: Provide funds to get the cosmologists waist-baskets, since the new introduction of exparimental data into cosmology means that they might have to start useing them. Passes 3-0-0+Spehn
Miller Motion: ``I will destory the universe.'' Fails 4-8-3+Spehn.
Jamie: ``Not looking forward to the end of Spring break, huh Andrew?''
Motion: ``Make Joy die at least a little before the universe ends.'' Fails 5-6-3+Spehn.
Miller Motion: 11-0-2+Spehn
Meeting adjourned 17:83 SST.