HKN Officer Meeting 4/7/05

***DIRECTIVES***
1. Sign up to help with study sessions (61A, EE40)
2. Remind your professors to go to the Student-Faculty Mixer on Wednesday (4/13)
   -Personally invite them; this increases the chances of them going
3. Sign up to help at Career Fair 
4. Ask your professors to participate in the Dunk Tank on Thursday

***EVENTS***
1. Alumni Broomball: TONIGHT, Thursday, April 7, 9:30PM - 11:15PM (Meet at HMC)
2. Ceili and Dance: Monday, April 11, 6:30PM - 9:30PM (Meet at HMC)
3. Student-Faculty Mixer: Wednesday, April 13, 11:00AM - 1:00PM (Woz)
4. Movie Night- eXistenZ: Wednesday, April 13, 9:30PM - 11:30PM (306 Soda)
5. Engineering Date Auction: Thursday, April 14, 7:00PM (Sibley Auditorium)
  -Proceeds go to the children's hospital
6. YMCA Community Service (Friday at the Y): Friday, April 15, 2:30PM - 5:00PM (YMCA)
7. Cal Day: Saturday, April 16 (EECS Tours from 10:00AM - 3:00PM)


***ATTENDANCE***
andyc, angelc, casey, don, george, hobarts, ihaque, isaac, jele, kli, lenwei,
liaor, lili, mangesh, nammai, narenr, noaa, sahandn, sameer, ssl, tgordv, ttd, tth

Guests: vu, brandono, quarl, aaronj, fhsu, cling, jameslin, jcliang, yanting li

Late: chris, hxu, lid

Absent: chrislai, joe, tracyx


***AGENDA***
0) Props
1) Study Sessions
2) Poker Tourney
3) Movie Night
4) Cal Day
5) Career Fair
6) T-shirt Contest
7) HKN Director
8) E-Week
9) Exam Files


***MEETING DETAILS***
0) Props
-Leonard, for setting up the EE20 study session
-Sahand and others for helping out at the study session
-Leonard, Sahand, Robert, and George for arranging the donut run

1) Study Sessions
-Midterms are coming up for both 61A and EE40
-Need people to help out for study sessions (Monday for 61A, Wednesday for EE40)
-Most likely will be from 6-8PM
-61A is currently doing object-oriented programming
  -Volunteers: ttd, lenwei, etc.
-EE40 (Wednesday): lili, andyc, ihaque, lenwei, isaac
-The Monday session is being set up by Leonard’s candidate, so give him props!

2) Poker Tourney
-Poker tournament will be held some time this month
-No buy-in
-We need prizes...but what kind?
  -things that we/EJC can afford
-Dollar amount is estimated at around a few hundred dollars
-Suggestions for prizes:
  -gift certificates
  -ipod; but if we get this, there would be less prizes
  -other mp3 players
  -cash
  -Game Cube
  -Xbox
  -PS2
  -computer account
  -EECS beanie
  -Hot or Not shirts
  -domain name
  -software
  -pen drives
  -poker chips
-Sahand suggests an iPod and a few gift certificates of lesser amounts of money
-Noaa suggests a Shuffle instead because it's cheaper, so the gift certificates
can either be worth more or we could have more certificates total
-Email George if you have any other suggestions

3) Movie Night
-Another movie night is coming up; suggestions for a movie?

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At this point Calvin walks in with a cake...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TINA!!!! =)
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-Movie suggestions (voting done by approval voting): 
  -Cool Runnings (5)
  -Sideways (3)
  -Big Labowski (6)
  -Army of Darkness (6)
  -Shaun of the Dead (0)
  -City of God (3)
  -Garden State (13)
  -Bourne Supremacy (13)
  -Motorcycle Diaries (3)
  -Finding Neverland (5)
  -Lord of the Rings- vetoed; too long
  -Sin City- vetoed
  -Sneakers (0)
  -Swordfish (0)
  -The Rundown (5)
-Leonard: keep in mind when voting that the movie will be shown for the general EECS public
-Voting now to choose between Bourne Supremacy and Garden State:
  -Garden State (5)
  -Bourne Supremacy (lots)
--> We'll be watching Bourne Supremacy

4) Cal Day
-Cal Day is next Saturday
-We’re giving tours from 10am-3pm of Cory and Soda
-Lunch is provided for volunteers
-Email Robert w/ questions
-Robert will email people who have already signed up
-Who wants to be on the panel?
  -It's a combined panel with SWE, HKN, UPE, etc.
  -More details to come
  -Volunteers: ttd, casey, hxu, vu
-Time slots for Cal Day will be available later since people's availability will vary

5) Career Fair
-We need as many people to sign up as possible
-It's going to be on Wednesday, April 20, from 11am – 5pm
-If you can only make it on the half hour, just sign up anyway (the sheet is going around)
-Sign up for as many slots as possible

6) T-shirt Contest
-EECS t-shirt contest is being held; more details are on the fliers posted around Cory
-eecstshirt@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu to submit
-Chris asks if we can give out a better prize than a $30 gift certificate and free shirt
-People might be coming in to ask about procedures (how to submit their ideas, etc.)
  -Format of submission is either paper or digital (send a link to a T-shirt)
  -If they hand you a paper, put it in the pub box
  -There is no set theme, except that it should be something EECS related
-We need people to judge the final results
  -chris, narenr, ttd, lili, ihaque...
  -Many more raise their hands, so Isaac will just bring the designs to OM

7) HKN director
-Nationals wants us to help vote to select some new officer positions
  -Positions are for President, VP, Director of Western Region, Director At Large
-They’ve provided us with biographies of each
-There is very little space for writing on the ballots; only 1 write-in choice available for each position
-You can abstain or nominate someone if you don’t want to vote 'yes' for the person
-There is only 1 vote (chapter vote)
-Chris is going to read little bits of the biographies
  -President:
    -J. David Erwin: 
      -Head of the EE dept at Auburn
      -Received his bachelor’s from Auburn
      -Masters and PhD from the Univ. of Tennessee
  -VP:
    -Bruce A. Eisenstein:
      -Interested in DSP 
      -Head of the Department at UCD
      -MIT alumnus
      -IEEE Fellow
-At this point the suggestion was made to have a digital copy available so we can read the biographies
-Aaron asks if the president was supposed to be from IEC; where are these nominees coming from?
-Chris says that they're all professors/heads of departments from around the country
-For this election, we weren’t given any option to nominate people
-What are the consequences of nominating people?
-Aaron says we should object to all of them because we weren’t ever told in advance that this election 
was happening; we never got to nominate people
-Also, we’re only given 1 week to do it, and there’s only 1 candidate for each position
-Chris: We can write in our own candidate and vote unanimously for him/her
-They want the # of ppl voting for both the write-ins and for the candidates
-Choosing to abstain can be interpreted as going along with what everyone else says
  -If we want to send a message, we should pick someone and vote for that person
-We could nominate 4 people in this room
  -However, they might take it as us not being serious about the whole election
-Vu suggests that we go along with three of their nominees and write one in ourselves for the
remaining position
  -Mangesh says we should abstain from three and write the last one in
-Aaron's name is brought up as a write-in for the Western Region Director position, because he's
graduated and is still active in HKN
-Voting:
  -President:
    -J. David Erwin (1)
    -Abstain (everyone else)
  -VP: 
    -Bruce A. Eisenstein (0)
  -Western Region Director
    -Steven Goodnik (0) 
    -Aaron Jow (21)
  -Director At Large
    -Teresa Olson (1)

8) E-Week
-EJC wants fliers posted on Cory, Soda, LeConte, and Lewis
-E-Week is next week
-Need people to table from 11am-2pm, Tuesday-Friday (sign-up sheet is going around)
-We can hold little events (with a maximum of $50 budget for prizes, materials, etc.)
  -A water balloon fight was suggested earlier; tell Andy if you want to help out
-Dunk Tank is on Thursday
  -12 spots are open
  -Dustin posted a website with available slots, but we need professors to sign up first
  -We'll reserve 6 spots for EECS profs, and leave the rest for other majors
  -Nominations (with the name of the person who will be asking them)
    -Patterson          -Hilfinger- mangesh        -Ramchandran            -Shewchuck- lenwei
    -Garcia- ttd        -Lee- ttd                  -Howe- jele             -Clancy- ttd
    -Nereuther          -Varaiya                   -Rabaey- ihaque         -Harvey- liaor
    -Malik              -Gastpar- sahandn          -Anantharam             -Yelick
    -Newton             -Sahai                     -Wainwright- ihaque     -Niknejad- ihaque
    -Rao- jele
-Tell them to show up 5 minutes early for their slot
-Andy will send out a reminder
-Dunk tank will be somewhere outside Evans
-Sign-ups for E-Week
       Tues              Wed  
11-12 liaor              sahandn, ttd, kli
12-1  george             mangesh, lenwei, kli, ttd, sahandn
1-2   isaac, tanya       sahandn, mangesh, tgordv, ttd
-Just show up for Thursday since it's the Dunk Tank day

9) Exam Files
-Midterms are coming up, so don't forget to give exams back to Exam Files