Minutes from HKN Officers' Meeting of 02/11/2004
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Present were kamil amywung angelc casey chan chris connie ezeng eroller
geoffcm hxu isaac james jele jluo jcliang kevinw kgao mimi nammai nikitas
rchen sahandn shihua ttd vperez wsim.

Late was awei.

None were missing.

Guests were aaronj awang atsao bheilers brandono cling dhsu quarl nchen
rgulati vu phoebus Kevin_Lin Frank_Gennari lnliu Liliya_Krivulina.

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 Directives
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You there!  Yes, you there, with the silly expression on your face!  
No, the one next to you - yes, you.  You!  I command you to...

- Help out with the HKN Career Fair!
- Go to the Food & Housing project on Saturday!
- Attend the study session next week and help!
- Help out with the two infosessions next week!
- Get me a jelly donut!


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 Agenda
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0. Reminders
1. Festivities
2. Relay to get a life
3. EJC
4. Connie
5. IndRel
6. AAD


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 Details
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0. Reminders (Mimi)
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. Tomorrow is the career fair; both offices will be closed.  This means
  if it's your OH, we expect you to be helping out during that time.

. Sign up for Food and Housing with Shi-Hua if you haven't already.

. Bring textbooks for tutoring use in the offices.


1. Festivities (Mimi)
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We celebrated Victor's 20th birthday, in true HKN fashion.  Gnomes and 
dwarves were invited to the party, along with ewoks.  We all ate 
brownies and came up with a lo-fi prototype for world peace.

Also, in celebration of Valentine's Day, Mimi made valentines for each 
person.  Some of them were too scandalous to mention here.  Gross!


2. Relay {for, to get a} Life (Nikita)
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'Relay For Life' is an insane relay for 24 hrs, done in teams.  It 
requires that at least one person be on the track at all times.  This is 
to raise money to fight cancer and stuff.  A related article from the 
Heuristic Squelch:

http://www.squelched.com/detail.cfm?num=-564290459

It will be held at "the end of April."  Nikita can set up a presentation
if people are interested.


4. EJC Report (Rupert & Kevin)
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. Anyone know how to get in touch with Bill Nye the science guy? EJC
  would like to get him to talk, but they need to go through some agent.
  EJC would like to see if they can bypass that.  It quickly became
  apparent that no HKN officer is a direct descendant of Mr. Nye.  From
  the way he speaks, you'd think he was related to Connie or something.
. An EJC-Sponsored "concert" pending
. Soccer League - because there's no *e*a*d in team.
. Real World Engineering on Thursday evening, after the Career Fair.
  4:30-7:30
. TBP forum is up.  Spam Cheeesecake's personal mailbox.
. ASUC found some money, so we can ask them to allocate funds if we need to.
. Misha's petition to postpone renovation of Upper Sproul
. Basic auto repair, soldering and glass-blowing classes.
. Accepting art/photography submissions to display during E-week.
. Kevin is looking for people who might want to present at a high school 
  about EECS.
. Constitution committee is fixing the EJC constitution.  if you have 
  any input about the EJC by-laws, tell Rupert.


5. Typewriter (Connie)
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61c midterm is next Wednesday.
61b midterm is on the following Monday.

There will be a study session on Tuesday, from 8 to 10, and another one 
on Thursday.  Keep those nights open.  Or keep them closed, but come 
help out at the study session.  Connie will bring bars of pure gold to 
compensate for your time.  And Honey Nut Cheerios.


6. IndRel Stuff (Indrel)
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. Thank you for volunteering, actives - I love you guys like I love 
  gold bars...  That is, you're as good as gold.  Yeah.
. People are encouraged to attend and help out at infosessions next 
  week.

	Tuesday  (VMWARE)
	................................
	5PM	connie	rchen	
	6PM	connie	rchen	isaac
	7PM	isaac	rchen	brandono
	8PM	isaac	rchen

	Wednesday (MICROSOFT)
	...............................
	6PM	vu	hxu	
	7PM	mimi	booi	kgao
	8PM	mimi	booi	geoffcm
	9PM	mimi	booi	
 
. Read instructions about helping out at Job Fair.  Some excerpts:
   - Don't eat the breakfast food.  If you've seen Spirited Away, you 
     know what I mean.
   - Clean up periodically if you're working in Stephens.
   - If a booth seems pretty empty, talk to the reps.
   - Make them feel relaxed when they're not in Pauley.
   - nametags and shirt is inside the kitchen.  Get them before your 
     shift.
   - If you have nothing to do, drop by and help out :)

Connie will give wake up calls to everyone at 6am.  And hand out gold 
bars for helping out.

You can also help pub flyer at 7!

Sandwich boards: Mimi, Alan, and Brandon will be wearing them.


6. AAD (Wonsop)
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Food was eaten and stories were exchanged, I think.


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 Fun Stuff 
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So instead of telling you jokes or whatnot, I've decided to tell you a
heartwarming story about me and my long-time friend Rufus Poon, and how
we overcame our adversities and learned an important lesson, in true
protagonist fashion.  So here we go, I hope you're all tucked in and
cozy...

...

	I first met Rufus for the first time in junior high.  At the
time, he was a timid boy who hadn't many friends.  In fact, I could
safely state that he had none.  Explaining the reason for that is not a
difficult matter: for a fourteen-year-old boy, Rufus was very cultured,
in stark contrast to our peers, who did not know much but to crack dirty
jokes and play immature pranks on each other.  Rufus spoke Hemingway and
Tolstoy, breathed Dali, Modigliani, and Renoir.  He sang Chippendale and
whispered Liszt.

	Our encounter was one solely of chance.  I was stepping away
from the lunch counter with my tray, when I felt my elbow make contact
with another plastic tray.  I quickly turned and saw a scrawny little
boy on the ground, with the food from the tray all over his new woolen
sweater (I knew it was new from the way the fabric curled).  The boy,
now furious, stood up and was now about to lunge at me.  As soon as my
eyes perceived his increased velocity towards me, I stepped aside and
the boy went flying into the chest of another, taller boy.  It was
Rufus.  The scrawny boy looked at Rufus, uttered some words of apology,
glared at me, and ran away.  Rufus, brushing off the dust from his
shirt, introduced himself to me.
	"Hello, I am Rufus Troy Poon.  What is your name?"
	"Cedric.  Han.  Cedric Han, that is."
He smiled sheepishly, and that smile was so drawing that I could not 
help but smile back at him.

	After that day, I got to know Rufus more and more.  He 
introduced me to so many new things that I had not even thought of 
enjoying before, like the theatrical plays put on in community theaters 
in the neighborhood, exquisite Hungarian cuisine (the tarhonya was to 
die for), and stories about faraway nations, love, and war.  I learned 
more culture from Rufus than anyone else.  We came to enjoy each other's 
company more than we'd expected, and became the best of friends in the 
course of two months.
	
	On a sunny summer's afternoon, Rufus and I were catching fish at
the lake, in all silence and tranquility, when it was broken by the soft 
whisper of my dear friend's voice.
	"Cedric, our family is leaving town."
	"..."
	"I won't be back, you know."
	I was so heartbroken that I could not say anything.  Instead, I
just blankly nodded and stared away into the water.
	"Here, let's make a small bet," said Rufus.
	"to meet here on the first day of June, after we graduate from
high school."
	"What is the betting in that?"  I retorted, somewhat curtly.
	Rufus broke out into a big grin.  I always knew he had some 
brilliant idea in mind when he grinned.
	"Well, I bet you that I will be here on that day, while you will 
not.  You will have forgotten me and moved on to make new friends, 
perhaps better friends than I could ever be to you."
	"Hogwash!" I retorted, now almost at the verge of tears.
	"In fact, I am so confident, that I am willing to bet a large 
sum of money on it.  If you lose, I expect that you will owe me the same 
amount of money as well."
	"I can't do that!  I will not have that much money out of high 
school!"
	"Well, consider it a loan from me to you then.  You can pay 
later."
	Rufus was now grinning so big that the corners of his mouth
connected the lobes of his ears.  A bit ridiculous looking, he continued
to add that he would somehow contact me later on about the bet.  He
would find my information five years in the future.  I reluctantly
accepted his bet, after some amount of cajoling.  On the way home that 
day, I began to question our friendship.  Why did it have to be cut off 
so abruptly?  And why was Rufus, who had led a life as clean as a 
bubble, insisting that i take him up on this ridiculous bet?

	Unfortunately, time passed, and as Rufus had predicted, I forgot
entirely about him.  I matriculated in a prestigious university in
Berkeley town, and studied the fine subject of electrical engineering 
and computer science.  Needless to say, I'd completely forgotten about 
the bet, and was living a blissful life.  Until one February 1st of 
2004, I received an e-mail from Rufus in my Hotmail Inbox:

	From : 	Rufus <Rufus@hvidmatpdkztk.com>
	Sent : 	Sunday, February 1, 2004 1:55 AM
	To : 	Cedric Han
	Subject : 	Fw:Re:Fw:

	Get back on track with your creditors

	If you don't need help, mail this to a friend; they will thank you 
	later.

	website contains-removal information.

	Rufus poon (cfbkpwlvklqrcjzphrv)

	vcnpmqxskqvfmunroRufus


	What was the meaning of this cryptic message?  Although I was 
happier than I had ever been to receive a correspondance from Rufus, I 
admit that I was quite disoriented and flustered when I saw that it was 
about paying back my creditors - one of which, undoubtedly, was Rufus 
Poon.  I showed this letter to my roommate, who was more socially adept 
and knew more about people than I did.  After hearing his explanation, I 
slapped my knee and exclaimed in triumph, "Eureka!"  I had found it!  
The answer to the enigma that was Rufus Poon!

	I had deduced, with a fair amount of help from my knowledgeable
roommate, that this was, in fact, just spam.

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Cedric Han
HKN Recording Secretary, Spring 2004