HKNerd Midnight Meeting
5/12/03
12-2:30am
Wozniak Lounge

Present:
amywu, amywung, apang, atsao, awang, awei, bheilers, brandono, chan,
cling, connie, dhsu, geoffcm, isaac, james, jcwest, jluo, jvoung, kevinw, kgao,
mimi, nikitas, quarl, rchen, ttd, vu, wsim,

Guests:
aaronj, chenm, fhsu, jacks, kevinlu, mchen, nchen, rntan

Missing:
eroller, rgulati


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* DIRECTIVES *
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1. Old officers update duties files
2. Read new duties files
3. Read compserv's email about hkn accounts
4. Sign up for finals week tutoring hours if you haven't done so
5. Calvin will arrange presemester meetings (to be held this Wed-Fri) by
email
6. Keep checking your email frequently these next couple weeks!


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* AGENDA *
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1.) CONGRATS!
2.) The Good (76 items, personal fav #48)
3.) The Bad (35 items, cling's pet peeve #25)
4.) The New (50 items, def. check out #50)
5.) The Ugly...Summer! (0 items, postponed for email correspondence &
presemester meetings)
6.) Wrap-up


1.)CONGRATS!


2.)THE GOOD: what went right sp '03
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1. committee status updates
2. presemster meetings
3. candidate quizzes
4. beating Purdue! (lousy Boilermakers and their corn fields....)
5. more community service pictures
6. GM speakers
7. officer bonding (relative to tbp)
8. variety of dept. services and community services
9. HKN involvement in faculty retreat
10. mixer good informal chatty atmosphere
11. informal officer "chilling"
12. funny pub e-mails
13. excellent slide show
14. new pictures in offices
15. new tables (and no new chairs)
16. Ping the duck!
17. display case
18. vp emails
19. prez/vp presence
20. hardworking indrel
21. vp support network on/offline
22. more enthusiasm about challenges
23. previous officers guiding new officers
24. candidate conversations in pairs (despite schedule problems)
25. grad student (read: Nathan Kitchen, nbk) tutoring in Cory
26. officers helping other committees
27. EE100 tutoring notes
28. responsibility for tutoring hours, asking for covers early
29. people always in Soda to cover tutoring hours
30. clean offices
31. officer enthusiasm
32. good activities: game night, scavenger hunt clues, frisbee,
broomballing, basketball, potluck, sports, 2-step
33. spread out scheduling of activities
34. new, but more importantly quieter, computer
35. committee mailing lists
36. candidate meeting good first impression
37. performance & group challenges
38. iron chef Dan Kuo (guess it's hot dogs and pizza for the next
retreat...)
39. embarassing videos of the president (it's only funnier if you keep
carrying your beloved pillow around, Nick!)
40. indrel: brochure, christmas cards
41. gifts for speakers (question: should Prof. King get an XL or a S
t-shirt, because that's all we have left)
42. alum sobay picnic (minus accidents)
43. new t-shirt designs
44. date auction, interacted with other clubs
45. retreat slideshow
46. new printer
47. using EJC $$ (or just using EJC in general)
48. UPE calling their office the HKN office
49. good relations with dept., (candy for the Center of Undergrad Matters)
50. excellent vp =)
51. speech before initiation to explain candidate requirements
52. candidate nametags for initiation
53. p=vp, good relations btwn prez & vp help a lot
54. candidate challenges that involve other officers
55. lots of new officers
56. lots of returning officers
57. more hanging around hoserchat
58. having a scapegoat (sorry rntan, you will have to be replaced soon)
59. more activities with tbp (bball, frisbee, except that we lost both!)
60. NVidia visit day
61. no fear talking to profs during GMs ("You said you're an ugly man...I
mean, you're not an ugly man! You're very handsome!")
62. ILP relations: take out to lunch, getting contact list
63. officers talking to shy candidates
64. arm wrestling
65. music for candidate meeting
66. the retreat thing??? (someone hound meep meep till we figure out what
this is)
67. more interaction with other societies
68. creative flyers
69. good relationship within committees btwn officers & candidates
70. updating events calendar
71. alumrel newsletter
72. pub newsletter
73. YMCA activities (*sniff* bye Candice!)
74. taking over UPE wall
75. officers on dept. committees
76. recycling bins


3.) The Bad: what went wrong sp '03
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1. alexf needs less accidents
2. nchen needs less accidents
3. unprepared to tutor
4. bad activities: movie night (no socializing), Qzar, bay festival (no
point), bowling (too much waiting, should've sent someone ahead of time to
reserve lanes), expensive activities
5. lack of activities: golf drive
6. economy
7. bad community service: make funner, need trailhacking, Ohlone park mgmt
mean, don't expect people to bring bagged lunch, don't expect to have
lunch served on a silver platter in the middle of a swamp
8. not enough planning, delegating within committees
9. need stricter timelines
10. publicize other group's more on events calendar
11. losing sports (and losing face) to alumni, UPE, TBP...
12. few officers at events (take roll for accountability?)
13. no early weekend activities, or sign-up sheet for wakeup calls
14. no socializing btwn candidates
15. no set policies for candidate attendance
16. course surveys stored in cramped Cory, instead of spacious Soda
17. candidates using Word for exam conversion
18. expecting resumes in Word
19. late room reservations, esp. elections
20. officers talking amongst selves instead of to candidates, esp. during
candidate conversations
21. cleaning up Woz, be more careful
22. dept. slow to give profs, TAs survey results (should pressure them)
23. pub duties early
24. no examples for exam conversion
25. NOT UTILIZING OLD MINUTES (note, minutes also online under "About HKN"
26. yearbook/slide kill bridge
27. using office as trash can
28. the old table
29. first tutoring shift of day starting late
30. bad staplers
31. Soda office doorstop
32. printing password
33. Nationals suck
34. peer advising turnout,
35. date auction lewdness


4.)THE NEW: what we're changing up for fall '03
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1. more exam files space
2. officer attendance policy for big activities, community service
3. peer advising better time & location (not Woz, not Fri afternoon)
4. more involved in inter-club events to prevent things like date auction
lewdness
5. many small faculty mixers, instead of one big one
6. inter-committee socializing (unsubsidized fun!)
7. exam checkouts: tabling right before midterms to give out, new deposit
system (no $$), exam drives to collect
8. projectOHM
9. more open source
10. other exams: fizx, math?
11. tea/coffee (burrito/ore cart?) runs in addition to donut runs
12. surveys for TAs to fill out
13. booksell for EECS (shameless plug: go to http://bookswap.berkeley.edu)
14. something date-auction like, but different like talent show
15. library for textbooks (physical or pdf)
16. officer bonding activities after retreat
17. end-of-semester candidate conversations with committee to checkup, get
feedback, encourage running for office, maybe character assessment?
18. bdays (Celebrate good times, come on!)
19. suggestion box outside offices
20. new activities: poetry reading, Jelly Belly tour, Exploratorium,
community service (basket making, passing out packages to homeless, tutor
or just visit local elementary/middle schools)
21. candidate ice breakers after speakers? (ex. pull impromptu speech
topics out of hat)
22. foce officers to small talk about non-HKN topics
23. more challenges involving other officers
24. more active and daring clues for scavenger hunt, less riddles (ex.
everyone stand in fountain w/o getting wet)
25. officer performances
26. GMs balance members desire to hear speaker with candidate's desire for
fun and icebreakers
27. GM talks: more personal, less focused on one tech topic, more
interactive, maybe get alum to speak, maybe get senior alum to speak?
28. icebreakers after speakers, before food, so members can leave or just
watch, while candidates ice break
29. GM talks shorter, 20-30 min. to fit in icebreaker
30. food later to fit in icebreaker
31. officers help start the mingling at faculty mixer
32. give candidates more responsibility
33. more interaction btwn alumni & new HKNerds
34. meetings w/ candidates outside of HKN
35. committee spend time with candidates doing HKN activities
36. support activities, esp. candidate-organized
37. common class lists (needs much ethical discussion concerning
restrictions & elitism)
38. more independence from fhsu (even though he is very appreciated!)
39. more advice/feedback from alumni
41. selling shirts during welcome week
42. beanies!
43. exchanges with other clubs (esp TBP, honors business society)
44. prof. book signing!
45. use your committee mailing list for advice, updates, etc.
50. active members
	- for those who want to help, but not make a huge time commitment
	- office tutors a subset, require app, limit #
	- active members volunteer, less commitment than officer
	- not pictures on website, just keep them in contact with studrel
	- other committees who need extra help (read: slave labor =P), ask
	studrel for active member recruitment!
	- can only help a bad situation where few members still active


5.) The Ugly...Summer!: immediate plans for the summer
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Postponed for prez to discuss with individual committees at presemester
meetings.


6.) Wrap-Up
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Vu congratulated sp '03 office core on a good semester: longer "The Good"
list (but also longer "The Bad" list).

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* THE END *
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*whew* Congratulations, you merry few who have made it this far!
(You just skipped to the bottom, didn't you?)  All feedback on minutes
format are welcome, just email rsec@hkn!  Good luck on finals everyone!


Amy Wung
HKN Recording Secretary Fall '03
amywung@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu