HKN Officer Meeting 3/31/05

***DIRECTIVES***
1. Go to the Scavenger Hunt!
2. Sign up to help with Cal Day


***EVENTS***
1. Photo Scavenger Hunt: Saturday, April 2, 10:30AM - 2:00PM (Soda volleyball courts)
2. Board Game Night: Wednesday, April 6, 7:00PM - 10:00PM (Woz)
3. Telebears Advising: Thursday, April 7, 4:00PM - 6:00PM (Woz)
4. Alumni Broomball: Thursday, April 7, 9:30PM - 11:15PM (Meet at HMC)
5. YMCA Community Service (Friday at the Y): Friday, April 8, 3:00PM - 5:00PM (YMCA)


***ATTENDANCE***
angelc, casey, chris, don, george, hobarts, hxu, ihaque, jele, lenwei, liaor, lid, lili, 
mangesh, nammai, narenr, noaa, sahandn, sameer, ssl, tgordv, ttd

Guests: none

Late: none

Absent: andyc, chrislai, isaac, joe, kli, tracyx, tth


***AGENDA***
0. Props
1. Photo Scavenger Hunt
2. Cal Day
3. Internship Program
4. Proposed Schedule
5. Induction Ritual


***MEETING DETAILS***
0. Props
-Robert for organizing the CS faculty presentation
-Robert and Leonard for arranging Telebears peer advising

1. Photo Scavenger Hunt
-Photo Scavenger Hunt is another really big event
-It's on Saturday
-Please go! It's a lot of fun!

2. Cal Day
-The EECS department needs people to help out on Cal Day (April 16)
-If you're interested in helping out for calday, sign the yellow sheet of paper going around
-Mostly you'll be giving tours of the labs or of Cory in general

3. Internship Program
-At the Faculty Retreat, it was brought up that the current internship program isn't very good
-Prof. Culler is in charge and he agrees with that view
  -He wants students to write feedback, including what students want and what companies want
  out of the program
-The current program didn’t work out because some of the internships didn't work out well for
the companies
-People interested in talking to Prof. Culler:
  -hxu, ttd, ihaque, jele, lid, sahandn

4. Proposed Schedule
-It was brought up before that the proposed schedule of classes in the advising book are bad
  -Major complaints were: the classes were not in the right order, some suggested schedules
  had students taking too many tech classes a semester, etc.
-Prof. Lee is OK w/ changing them, but he wants suggestions
-If you’re interested in giving suggestions, raise your hand and give your option #:
  -sahand 2, li 1, ihaque >1, noaa 4, don 5

5. Induction Ritual
-Chris needs feedback on what everyone thought of the new induction ritual
-Sahand thinks Alice G’s suggestions were good
-The new ritual didn’t emphasize helping other societies
  -It seems to focus more on patting ourselves on the back
-Imran: They changed the purpose of HKN 
  -Quotes such as "those who have conferred honor" and "to foster educational excellence" don’t really mean anything
  -It was better before (with the general idea- "to bring people together for mutual benefit")
-Noaa notes that some of the old lines (such as not expecting the world to give you anything) make the ritual
blown out of proportion 
-Chris says that the purpose of the ritual might be to be slightly over the top
-Naren and Tanya want the line about not resting on our laurels to still be in the ritual
-Donny notes that even though "scholarship, character, and leadership" are listed, we don't really have the 
candidates do anything that require a leadership role
-Are there any ramifications for not using the new ritual?
  -Tina says that although HKN has never officially said so, there should be some leeway before we have to use it
-The general consensus is that everyone likes the old one better
-Leonard says that the beginning of the new ritual is weird (the part about controlling the lights)