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OFFICER REPORTS
Mike
had a weekend
involved booth
aquarium!
theft!
actions not endorsed by the kgb
Skye
had a weekend
zombies! great!
then parents
no sleep nothing done
Dillon
had a weekend
threw a puzzlehunt saturday (oh god)
booth build on sunday!
EVENT
KGB Pajama Party 2: electric boogaloo
(GBGC in disguise)
Board games! Pajamas! Soft things!
PH a18*, friday, 7pm
Erin
had a weekend
on saturday probably did something
on sunday wnet to booth and did more. things.
made a pravda!
Zora
had a weekend
bad at postage
Joe
had a weekend
there was not much sleep
also parallel
measured a shit ton of ply for booth
Murphy
had a weekend
was there the event? no. concert.
puzzlehunt!
COMMITTEE REPORTS
making dylan happy
while he is happy people went to booth, he also just got accepted to comp bio!!
...he's supposed to report his acceptance back on april fools
sad airplane
ad hoc tech is hard
frieder has custom keyboard shortcuts that fuck up his way to make newlines
hopefulness
harry has two exams on april fools day
misap april fools
jaws. in the pool. not a joke.
BOOTH
less than 2 weeks until move on
people came to builds!
please come to builds
we've gotten stuff doneeeeee
also there's a new build!
tues 6:30 - 9:30
spring carnival committee committee
everything is great
nothing is wrong
march is the new may
yeah pretty much that
shit i read in the tartan
someone stole a cardboard cutout of david tepper
why
NOMCOM
pay your dues by next week!!
they'll clean up the spreadsheet before nominations
nominations
rin for corsec
dylan for 2vp
joe for 1vp
murphy for 1vp
presentation! how voting works.
annual meeting is april 18 at 4:30
it loooong
platforms!
if you're running for a thing, write a platform for the thing
just one platform, but include the stuff you're running for
speech
1 min to speak
1 speech per position
you don't have to speak
the color of elections is purple
positions are elected in descendingorder of rank
nomcom is proctors
they don't have to be but it keeps happening
voting
there are ballots!
you'll get a piece of paper
you have to use the ballot from the correct round
it will be displayed
they are anonymous
ed will burn them afterwards
write the ANDREW ID
it doesn't count if it's not perfectly correct
there's a process for counting and eliminating
the proctors know how, you can check the process in the bylaws
or ask ed
absentee ballots
you have to email them to nomcom by monday, april 18, at? noon?
one vote per position
answers to questions
everyone who is a voting member can vote, even if they're on nomcom or nominated
there's a bylaws rule that says the slate isn't valid if we could possibly run out of people for later positions
basically we can't do elections if there's a possibility that we would end up with an empty position
if you wanna withdraw, just contact nomcom
OLD BUSINESS
the Thing!
having to have the spirit of the thing isn't sam's fault
NEW BUSINESS
motion to creat a standing rule
like, a rule that everyone has to be standing
this is discriminatory to people who can't stand up
there's nothing in our bylaws that says we can't
actually, student activities says we can't
ACTUALLY, they say we need to have something in our bylaws
we. don't.
ammend rule to "all kgb members during a GBM must be standing up as high and for as long as they are able"
passes
we would have to be standing until we make a motion to sit
change all "standing" to "sitting"
passes
this is now the sitting rule
only mike has to follow standing rules
change all "sitting" to "dancing"
fails
change all "sitting" to "sitting on the floor"
what if ed can't sit down all teh way can he just lean
if walls are just vertical floors, are chairs just raised floors
nope they're chairs
fails
motion to change all rules to sitting on the floor
NO
so if you don't follow a standing rule does that mean that you won't stand for this
fyi this requires people to sit as high as they are able for as long as they are able
the floor is lava committee approves
has there ever been an emu as tall as this emu
HEY DOWN IN FRONT
FAILS
motion to make all the standing rules sit down
this would make squid, point of blank, and spoontinudigu sit down
they'd have to sit down at the end of the year anyway
FAILS
the outlet for my insanity: to vent my frustration at the goddamn lack of outlets in this room
so yesterday skye was in a meeting
and there was a really high outlet
and skye almost died
change insanity to "insamity"
PASSES
motion to make this committee sit down
it wants to be comfortable
motion to make the outlet sit down
you can try
if you just SCREAM into the power hole you should get some electrons
change insamity to innanity
fails
ad hoc you're green with it: generating electricity from screams seems like a great premise for a movie
the outlet is sitting down, it's just sitting down as high as it can
PASSES
$2 to Harry, either harry or murphy will chair
i took a class in electrons once: to say technically correct but unhelpful things about electrons
change "electrons" to "power hole"
passes
dillon was usin wolfram alpha
10pf is not 10 pico ferrads. it means 10 per fortnight
as an electrical engineer, joe is very positive about electrons
all the (ex) physics majors express their hatred of physics
PASSES
$5 to erin, anyone who has taken a class where they mention the word electon
amendment questions
basically, exec CAN expel someone via just themselves.
there are intervening steps and checks, but the power is with exec
rationale for the whole amendment?
gross stuff has happened in the KGB in the past, and ultimately we're just a bunch of college kids
we've structured this to be a guide and to involve student activities--adults
skye says: a big thank you to EVERYONE who helped, if anyone wants to help or make any comments, talk to skye
(or any of us)
joe says: also, that segment hadn't been changed in FIFTEEN years
our body has changed, and so have the times
they needed an update
were the existing procedures ever used?
not really
they didn't really help guide the users
so why will THIS be used, if these weren't?
we tried to change how things start
we go into detail about when someone comes to exec with a problem
we've also added probation, which will hopefully facilitate better options
since dillon has been on the board, we've had to deal with at least one situation requiring this article
we felt that the options were either too extreme or not enough
in conjunction with student activities, we figured out what to do
this amendment pretty much came out of that experience, and what we felt the bylaws didn't help us with
joe's take
right now, the section also only revokes membership privileges
so if someone NOT technically a member did bad stuff, we had no official capacity to keep the general body safe
also, suspension
the powers of suspension were super limited
if something happened during booth, the scope was super short and ineffectual
what is the set of situations that could trigger the article?
basically, someone has to bring a complaint
we don't have a list of "valid offenses"
we are still going to work on one--if you want to work on it, we are open to the help
are there parts that keep the procedures from being abused?
sort answer: yes
exec has power, but for most actions ALL--or 2/3s--of exec would have to be corrupt/bad/etc
can the amendement be amended
yes, but we would have to withdraw it and then resubmit
basically, any amendments would have to be handled by the next exec because of how close we are to the annual meeting
motion to make an allocation not to exceed $50 for food and supplies for the event
PASSES
general chaos committee reports
motion to disband the kgb
dilatory
motion to grant murphy the tile of general chaos
change to "you have to remain standing as high and for as long as you are able"
LOUD SOUND
this change is dilatory because this motion has not purpose
FAILS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
EVENT
pajama party
board games
soft things
warm
PH A18* 7pm friday
zombies
post mortum bh255A
tomorrow 7:30
go talk
voting elections
pay dues
do it by next weke
ctfws rules
tonight 8pm wean 8427 (judges room)
if you're interested come by
stuff changes!
shirts
we have a new buggy shirt
and a new booth shirt
go to cmukgb.org/ordershirts to order shirts
exec
weds 4:30 uc 306
join us
voting amendment
info about the thing at cmukgb.org/article9
we'll be voting on it next week (april 4)
there will be discussion for the bulk of the meeting
SCHMUCKS
sigbovik
friday 5pm in rashid
frieder is presenting
also others
it's very serious
frame gallery
friday 6pm
maddy and heather cowie
sludge girl theory
sat april 9
at pitt
harry is djing
8am to 12am the next day
10 to 11pm is harry
$5 donation
profits go to the children's hospital
cmu computer club
8 to 11pm, sat april 2
retro gaming!
worms on amendment: thanks exec for going through it
