Minutes20070430

Minutes: General Body, 30.4.2007

Schmucks:
Why don't we have our room? No one knows.
Why are we doing schmucks first? Because the President has power.

Announcements:
Event: Eating Frenzy, Schenley Park far park, meet at Kirr at 6:45
Useless Stuff: if you bought things, pay Liz ASAP
KGB is not meeting in A14 today or for the next four weeks. Exec will email the general body with a room location.

Officer Reports:
President: Hamburg Hall room numbers are _awful_.
1st Vice President: Sick and has a program to write.
   New people: Nick Cass, MechE, has to go lifting right now
       Robert Wickman, BME/ChemE, went to the bathroom recently
       Christa Politano, not primary education, graduated
2nd Vice President: event: we will provide meat but not much else, will post to bboard if rain
Corresponding Secretary: oh man, officer now, had a weekend, now work, crushed
Recording Secretary: ditto, pretty exactly
Treasurer: had a weekend which contained witches and pirates, but now work
Sergeant@Arms: not crushed, has little work, lucky, general body boos

Committees:
Gratuitous Obscenities: Who has our room?

Pop occultism: lean crop, more from 2VP, deferred

Misappropriations: dropped bouncy balls from the 31st floor of the Cathedral and it was awesome

Pop Occultism: Welcome each day, time to explore, obstacles, success. I guess this means I'll be leaving Pittsburgh. Unexpected relationship will become permanent: Glisson will be S@A for life. Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit; mmorpg's the ruin of GPA.

Misappropriations: Time travel: We should announce in advance on the bboard that we will not have a room for the meeting.

Actual time travel committee agrees.

Storytelling: at a 1996 meeting in Breed Hall, they had the nickel of pfault, which was 5 pennies arc-welded together. This was supposed to be a joke for just a few meetings, so it was buried under a tree. Then it was replaced.

Storytelling again: Had a squirrel in the walls; the thing about squirrels is they are fierce, active, and intersticial. But it was a raccoon, which is worse. But it was three raccoons, and raccoons cost $950.

Vague Threats: Give dlstern a list of the committees you own or else.

Secret Affairs: If you try to take all the committees, not-vague threat.

Fuck with Baggers: Used bagger help to make tasty baked goods.

More Vague Threats.

Bake Barter: advertised slave bagger labor--from Darfur! Then saw Amnesty International tabling nearby, and shouted louder.

Hoffsteader: 1 step closer to base case.

Old Business:
pfennig: Dave: new pfennig has a pineapple that looks like the thistle. President will hold for safekeeping.

Motion to recreate the FUND: $150 for Exec for emergency exec supplies. Move to include alcohol: NO! FUND passes.

New Business:
Allocation not to exceed $75 for food for Feeding Frenzy. Passes.

Motion to create the Trashy Romance Novels committee, with purpose to celebrate trashy romance novels. Shawn has to read said novels in funny accents, Tetris smut, Clippy. Motion passes: $20 to Shawn, himself as chair and soliciting submissions.

Motion to create the Austin Powers Collectible Card committee, with purpose to spread the word about the card game. Bad idea, horrible game. Motion fails: better for all of us.

Motion to create the Ultra-Violet committee, to report the presence of UV light at meeting. This could be covered by an especially strong motion to purple. If we removed our corneas we could see in the UV range, and sell our corneas on the black market; the treasurer approves. Motion passes: $10 to Paul, himself as chair so he can make paranoia jokes.

Motion to renew the Canadian currency scholarship fund, which has the purpose of donating Canadian pennies to the Hub. Need to obey Senate: can't give money to our own members. Amendment: use the money at Montreal strip clubs. Motion and amendment pass.