HKN Officer Meeting
11/17/03 7pm Cory Hall

Present:
amywu, amywung, andypang, atsao, awang, awei, brandono, chan, 
cling, dhsu, eroller, geoffcm, isaac, jan, james, jcwest, jluo
kevinw, mimi, quarl, rchen, rgulati, ttd, vu, wsim

Late:
connie, kgao, nikitas,

Guests:
alexf, nchen, aaronj, Christi & Danny from the American Society of Civil 
Engineers (ASCE)

Missing:
bheilers


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* DIRECTIVES *
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So many...

...places to go!
Mon 11/17 10-1am      Alumni Broomball
Tue 11/18 4-6pm       Xilinx Infosessions (Zachary's & ice cream!) @ 306 Soda
	  6-8pm	      GM3 (w/ Professor Fearing) @ Woz		      
Wed 11/19 5:30-7:30   Blue & Gold @ 217 McLaughlin

...things to do!
1.) If your office was allotted a portion of the EJC office supplies money
(see October 27, 2003 minutes, agenda item 8) then go ahead and spend it. 
2.) Start collecting socks, empty shampoo bottles, and toiletries for the EJC
charity drive.


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* AGENDA *
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0.) Xilinx infosession (vu)
1.) Alumni broomball (rchen)
2.) EJC update (rgulati)
3.) GM3 (chan)
4.) Graduate School Wkshop (atsao)
5.) Ned's Books (cling)
6.) Budget (kgao)
7.) Banquet (cling)
8.) Cory lounge decorations (mimi)
9.) Food pickup (eroller)
10.) ASCE guests
11.) bowling with AUWICSEE
Wow, it's another double digit-er!

0.) Xilinx infosession
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Tuesday 4-5pm @ 306 Soda
3:30-4:30     james
4:30-5:30     eroller, aaronj, mimi, wsim
5:30-6:30     geoffcm, andypang


1.) EJC update
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* Charity drive coming soon! Wanted: socks, empty shampoo bottles (they already
have shampoo in bulk, but need bottles to distribute it out to individuals),
and toiletries.  Collection cans will be located at 220 Bechtel, McLaughlin, 
and Engineering Library.  The society with the most donations will be awarded
a digital camera or a foosball table.

* Considering offering grants to help students pay for extra class fees. 
Remember, all unused EJC money goes back to the ASUC.

* Broomball tomorrow, meet at 10pm at HMC.  $2/person, drivers free.


2.) Alumni Broomball 
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rchen was pleased to see that many were planning on going.


3.) General Meeting 3
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Announcements for chan to add:
examfiles requirements (will be ready by tomorrow)
course surveys
community service


4.) Graduate School infosession
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Illinois Urbana-Champaign is coming to give another graduate school infosession
this Wednesday.  Pub will flyer as soon as vu converts the file from Microsoft
Publisher.


5.) Ned's books
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Then new manager at Ned's books has contacted cling to give us a stack of free 
bluebooks, which will be kept in Soda & Cory offices to distribute to anyone
who wants them.  Also received cards that keep track of how much you 
spend at Ned's, and give you back money if you've spent a minimum amount. ($15
back for spending $300-500, $30 for spending $501-750, etc.) Also received 
VIP cards that get you 20% off clothing & gifts, 10% off textbooks, and 5% off
tradebooks during their grand reopening December 4, 3-8pm.  Lastly, since we
want textbooks in the offices to help with tutoring, Ned's has offered to sell
us those books at a discount.  They will be sent a list of books shortly.


6.) Budget
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If you were allotted some of the $500 EJC office supplies money (see OM minutes
October 27, agenda item 8), then go ahead and spend the money. 


7.) Banquet
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Will be at Gaylord's in SF, $25-30 per person.  Decided on family style rather
than buffet. More details to come.


8.) Cory lounge decorations
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Let mimi know if you want to help her decorate the Cory lounge with snowflakes,
etc. this weekend.


9.) Food pickups
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awang volunteered to pick up drinks for GM3
vu volunteered to pick up Zachary's pizza for Xilinx infosession.


10.) ASCE guests
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Christi & Danny, Industrial Liasons for the Berkeley student chapter of 
ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) visited to talk to us about setting
up their own career fair (reserving a room, setting up online registration, 
etc.)  If you have any suggestions for them, please email asce@ce.berkeley.edu
or visit their office on the 4th floor of Davis Hall.  


11.) bowling with AUWICSEE?
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AUWICSEE would like to do a bowling activity with us.  We already have 4 lanes
reserved for bowling on Monday, but we can try and reserve more, and then get
back to AUWICSEE.


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* FUN STUFF *
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If you don't think I'm funny, do something about it!  Make a name for yourself
and contribute to the minutes "Fun Stuff" by emailing amywung@hkn.


Engineer Jokes! 
(taken from http://www.frontiernet.net/~tzuleger/webjokes/engineerjokes.htm)

Knowledge, Time, and Money
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Dilbert's "Salary Theorem" states that "Engineers and scientists can never earn
as much as business executives, sales people, accountants and especially 
liberal arts majors." This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical 
equation based on the following two well known postulates:

Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power. 
Postulate 2: Time is Money. 
As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time.

Since: Knowledge = Power, 
then Knowledge = Work / Time, 
and Time = Money, 
then Knowledge = Work / Money.

Solving for Money, we get: Money = Work / Knowledge.

Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity, regardless of 
the amount of work done.

Submitted by Shawn Rung.