Minutes from HKN Officers' Meeting of 03/10/2004
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Present were kamil amywung angelc chan chris connie ezeng eroller geoffcm
isaac jameslin kevinw kgao mimi nammai nikitas sahandn shihua ttd vperez
wsim.

Late were awei casey rchen.

Missing were hxu jele jluo jcliang.

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

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 Directives
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To be worthy of membership in our Very Secret Society (TM), you must...
. go to Miniature Golf and mingle with candidates.  Do not abuse putters.
. participate in the Scavenger Hunt on Saturday.
. submit two of your candidates' profiles.
. spray down the next open-top convertible you see with a garden hose, 
  like Geoff's!!
. not notice that these minutes were sent out horribly, so horribly late.

Only after you complete these five trials may you be considered for
membership in our Very Secret Society so that you may partake in our
weekly Secret Barbequeues held at our Very Secret Location at a Very
Secret Time every Sunday in the Volleyball courts behind Soda at noon. 
Err...


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 Agenda
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0. Special Announcement
1. Props + 2 Birthdays + Places to Go
2. facretreat@hkn
3. Freshmen Info Page
4. E-Week + EJC Matters
5. Company Visits
6. Research-Related Services
7. Morning Calls for Scavenger Hunt
8. Bridge Candidate Profiles



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 Details
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0. Special Announcement (Mimi)
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We won the award for BESTHKNCHAPTERINTHEWHOLEWIDEWORLD!  Okay not in
those exact words, but that's pretty much what it is.  So props to all 
the officers who made this happen, and big-ups to Bridge for putting 
together a great annual report.


1. Props + 2 Birthdays + Places to Go (Mimi)
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Ellen - For working really really really hard pulling together all the 
        DeptRel stuff (GM Speakers, faculty retreat, faculty interviews, 
        etc)
Eric - for his work on the huge EJC budget report, paying attention to 
       each minute detail from every event.

Kun and Rupert's birthdays are this week!  Thanks once again for all 
your contribution, guys.

Places to go:
Thursday(3/11)	All day: Lockheed Martin Technology Day.
              	630PM: Miniature Golf
Friday(3/12) 	600PM: Tutoring Committee Dinner (for all the souls in 
                       need of lovin)
Saturday(3/13) 1030AM: Photo Scavenger Hunt
Sunday(3/14)   1200PM: Soccer
Wednesday(3/17) 730PM: Capture The Flag II
Thursday(3/18)  930PM: Broomball


2. facretreat@hkn (Ellen)
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Every spring semester, the faculty get together to talk about issues
regarding teaching, research, and interacting with students, among other
things.  Student societies have traditionally had a chance to make a
presentation during the faculty retreats.

Currently, the e-mails regarding inter-society discussion about faculty 
retreat go to facretreat@hkn.

Instead of having an opt-out list for all current officers, it will be 
an opt-in list for people who would be interested in helping out.  If 
you'd like to opt in, tell Ellen.  People who attend the meetings will 
likely send out a summary to officers as events come up.


3. Freshmen Info Page (Ellen)
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Please visit the website for prospective students and give feedback:
http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/student/

Volunteers to give opinions and help out:
kun, ttd, cling, geoffcm, mimi, chan, dhsu

Daniel will write about his AWESOME experiences to be put up on the 
page.  This is his way of giving back to the College that's given so 
much to him.  If we all pitch in a little, maybe ten years down the 
road, we will meet a student from Berkeley EECS and hear that s/he's 
having the same positive experiences that we've had.


Discussion about hosting a panel in GM3:
Originally, Professor Ross was either coming to speak, or was going to 
find someone to speak.  Ellen found an interesting candidate for a 
speaker in GM3; a Berkeley EECS grad who is now a photographer.

Inspired by this, Ellen is thinking of getting together a panel of
people who were EECS but have moved on to do other things to speak at 
GM3.

Pros:
Good break from pure EECS-related talks
May be good as a non-GM activity
Microsoft's Alumni Chat format would work well.

Cons:
Concerns about the format of the panel
    - How will it be moderated?
    - Will the questions be any good?
    - Panels we've had were not very successful
    - Doesn't have to be a panel, but one person. -> Variety is better 
      though.
    - Need to consider providing for everyone attending.
    - Would it be impolite to Professor Ross? -> She would speak at our 
      banquet instead.

More discussion pending.


4. E-Week + EJC (Kevin & Rupert)
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What do we want to do for E-Week?
Will do a dunk-tank (make sure to contact profs before reserving the 
tank).  Downside of this is that it's not too related to engineering...
     - This would be better for the last day (friday)
     - We need to contact professors.

We also want cool stuff to show off during E-Week (and perhaps Cal Day).
If you have any interesting things to show off, contact ejc@hkn.

BBQ: since we're doing so much other stuff that week, we'll pass on
manning the bbq.

Misha's running for ASUC president: e-mail him if anyone's interested in 
running for senate and want advice.

Show your support for engineers running for office in the ASUC!!
But make sure you agree with the person's views...

Societies are not allowed to officially endorse any candidate, but
individuals are welcome to show support.

Have ejc-reps mail members@hkn and let them know what's up


5. Company Visits (Casey and Vu)
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Indrel will focus on building relationships for the rest of the 
semester.

Company visits (HP, NVidia, Apple, AMD) - will publicize to general 
eecs students (20~30 students for each trip)
Perhaps Pixar too.

Schedule:
 4/2 - Apple
 4/26 or 28 - HP
 4/16 - AMD

Submit your resumes for the resume book!

I don't have ADD...


6. Research-related Services (Mimi)
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Sheila asked Mimi what HKN does to foster research interest...   
    suggested that we do more to this end, since we "have the resources" 
    to foster more interest.  Some candidate also brought this up.

Ways to reach this goal:
. A message board about research where people can discuss various 
  issues.
. We should emphasize that it's important for students to actively seek 
  research themselves, rather than rely on openings to show up.
. Other chapters have "research advisor officers," but their roles are 
  unclear.
. Our advice would be pretty static, so there may not be too much we can 
  do...
. Sheila would want to focus on the things that distinguish your society 
  from other societies.
. Thought that it was a good idea that UPE has "reading groups" 
  - effectiveness of reading groups questionable; perhaps better for us 
  to have an informal talk by students in research in the beginning of 
  the semester and act as a liaison between profs and students.
. Web pages would this be redundant, with pages from URO and URAP
. other ways to get students involved with professors' research: improve 
  faculty-student mixer, poll professors about what they want from 
  undergrads in terms of research assistance.

7. Morning calls for scavhunt...
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chan requested it.  Please go and have fun!  And food!!


8. Bridge (kun)
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Bridge is planning a new website
	- need more info on candidates, so committee heads should write 
          about a half-page on two of your candidates.
	- this is so that we can get to know our candidates better.


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 Fun Stuff
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It's Friday night and I didn't think of anything fun to do.  I'm so outta 
here...  Have a good weekend, everyone.  We ran out of shampoo.

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Cedric Han
HKN Recording Secretary, Spring 2004