Minutes from HKN Officers' Meeting of 02/04/2004
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Present were awei kamil amywung angelc casey chan ezeng eroller geoffcm
isaac james jluo jcliang kevinw kgao mimi nammai nikitas rchen shihua ttd
vperez.

Late were chris hxu jele sahandn wsim.

Missing was connie.

Guests were awang atsao andypang brandono cling dhsu quarl nchen rgulati vu
sean_gabriel.

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 Directives
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To be in my good graces, you had better:
- Help out with Jobfair (logistics and publicity)!
- RSVP for Alumni Appreciation Dinner!
- Think about candidate projects!
- Make it to your office hours!
- Sign up for community service!
- Go to these events:
	Movie Night (Thurs. 2/5, 306 Soda)
	Career Fair (Thurs. 2/12, Pauley Ballroom, MLK Student Union)
	Berkeley Food & Housing (Sat. 2/14, Location to be announced)


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 Agenda
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1. JobFair
2. AAD
3. Big Dates & Cand Stuff
4. Mission Statement & hkn@hkn
5. Tutoring stuff
6. Community Service
7. Wiki


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 Details
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* This will be a long read, due to the length of the meeting.  My 
  humble apologies for those who are reading this.


1. Jobfair (IndRel, Pub)
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Indrel is closing down registration for the Job Fair this Friday.  Apple 
seems to have dropped out, but Oracle signed up recently.  Vu "talked to 
Rambus."  Apparently, they're good, since they had pizza at the 
Infosession.

Due to budget constraints, we'll have cheaper food for helpers.  There 
were no objections, us being po' college students and all.

Hua will send out more info for volunteers, and Jessica is looking into 
movers.  Helpers, please wear pants that are not jeans and wear an undershirt
under the Polo shirt.  If you don't follow this simple rule, we may all 
end up smelling like rotting turnips a la awei.  Anyhow, we'll be closing 
office hours that day, so you'd better help out if you have tutoring hours
that day.  I have tutoring hours that day.  Blast.


Publicity Stuff:
Pub says there will be flyering at 8:30AM till 10:30AM on Friday.  This 
is insane, and probably goes against Article 8 of the Bill of Rights.  
Foolishly, some people volunteered for this thankless task:
awei, mimi, kgao, sahandn, amywung, chan(why, oh why)
We meet at 345 Soda.

We also need to put TODAY stickers next Thursday (7:30AM).  There were 
volunteers.  You know who you are.  Pub will have more instructions. 
There will be chalking on Wednesday night, after AAD, if it doesn't rain.  
If feasible, people can do it before OM as well.  Also, if you've signed 
up to make chalkboard announcements, make sure to ask the professor of the 
lecture for permission.

Brandon the Foolish volunteered to wear the sandwich board on the day of
the career fair.  Mimi insisted that Brandon go to classes with the
sandwich board.  We weren't so sure about that.  It's very inconvenient to
sit down in a sandwich board.  Still, if there are executive orders, 
Brandon may have to attend class wearing nothing but a sandwich board.  
President's orders pending.


2. AAD (AlumRel)
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We will be appreciating our alumni and depreciating our retired 
officers on Wednesday, February 11 after OM at TGIF in Jack London Square. 
Please reply to Wonsop's RSVP email.  HKN will subsidize a portion of your 
costs.  That amount will be figured out "soon."


3. Big dates & Candidate Stuff (VP)
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Important Dates!!
.................
Thurs 2/19 6:30-8:30 Woz	CM
Tues 3/2 6:30-8:30 Woz		GM1
Wed 3/31 6:30-8:30 Woz		GM2
Tues 4/20 6:30-8:30 Woz		GM3
Mon: Tues 2/23-2/24 		Conversations
Fri: 4/30			Packets due

Buddy System:
Scrapped.  Instead, will have more coordinated committee system as dtom
suggested.  Amy will teach us how to handle candidates.  If you've handled
candidates before, and if your name is not Kun, please give some pointers
to Amy.  Committee heads should start thinking about what kind of work you 
want your candidates to do.  Amy will crack down on this fo sho' this 
semester.

Theme songs for CM:
Submit a link to an mp3 for your committee's theme song by the Tuesday 
before CM.  Otherwise, Amy will choose some horrible, horrible song to 
represent your committee.  :)

Ideas for an icebreaker at CM: 
	1) imitating machine. geoffcm
	2) imitating a sandwich. jcliang
	3) imitating a fruit or a sound, and hitting people with a 
           styrofoam noodle. nikitas
	4) imitaiting a chain.  hold hands behind your back, flip a coin and
           run around.  cause havoc.  amywung
email amywung@hkn with more icebreaker suggestions or opinions.


4. Mission Statement & hkn@hkn (Pres)
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The final mission statement, after extensive grammaticialitous review:

"Eta Kappa Nu exists to give back to the EECS community and to honor the 
academic excellence & character of its members.  We provide a {variety, 
cornucopia, plethora} of services to foster the relationships between EECS 
students and the department and industry."

Basically, we're liasers.  Bam!!  Liaser beams!!

Ahem..  Current officers are encouraged to audit hkn@hkn, which is
normally for executives (treas, deptrel, pres, vp).  Many ad-hoc
procedural and other decisions are made through this mailing list, so
officers are encouraged to audit to get a better view of how things work.  
Ask ops@ to be put on hkn-auditors@hkn.


5. Tutoring (Tutoring?)
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Chris is going to try to supply both offices with copies of textbooks - he
is accepting donations of old textbooks and lwnage of textbooks.  If you
want to either donate or lwn, let chris@hkn know.  By the way, we've
started tutoring.  If tutoring attendance doesn't improve, Chris might
have to invoke some sort of sign-in procedure, or unleash AlexF on the
truant tutors.  Raman says chris should enforce tutoring hours.  If you
can't make your hours, try to get someone to cover for you, Kun.


6. Community Service (Act)
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Making and compiling (ha ha) programs for Berkeley Food and Housing 
Project.  It will be on Valentine's day (or just 2/14 for us lonely 
souls), and the location is within walking distance.
There are two shifts, 10-1 and 1-4.  People signed up with Shi-Hua after 
the meeting.


7. Wiki (Quarl)
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Karl: Anybody have questions?
... some moments later
Karl: Wiki is unbreakable.
Amy: Is that a challenge?  (Amy breaks all)

Essentially, wiki is good for web access, or keeping running notes.  
However, the duties files on the Unix filesystem should be the more
permanent record for now.


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 Fun Stuff
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Excerpts from 'The Very Secret Diary of Legolas, Son of Weenus'
(Shamelessly ripped from http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/legolas.html)

Day One:
 Went to Council of Elrond. Was prettiest person there. Agreed to follow 
 some tiny little man to Mordor to throw ring into volcano. Very important 
 mission - gold ring so tacky.

Day Four:
 Boromir so irritating. Why must he wear big shield like dinner plate all 
 the time? Climbed up Caradhras but wimpy humans who cannot walk on snow 
 insisted we climb back down. 

 Am definitely prettiest member of the Fellowship. Go me!

Day Six:
 Far too dark in Mines of Moria to brush hair properly. Am very afraid I 
 am developing a tangle. 

 Orcs so silly.

 Still the prettiest.

Day Ten:
 Gandalf fell into shadow. In other news, I think I am developing a spot 
 on my nose. V. serious situation, as Elven spots likely to last for 500 
 years or more.

 Still prettiest, despite blasted spot.

Day 33: 
 Boromir tempted by Ring. So tedious. Cannot be tempted myself, as already 
 have everything I want i.e. perfect hair and a butt like granite. 

 Have been getting very strange letters from someone calling herself 
 "Stacey" who wants to do obscene things to my elfhood. Fortunately have 
 super-duper elf vision so can run away if I see her coming.

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Cedric Han
HKN Recording Secretary, Spring 2004