SFLIS Minutes

SFLIS MINUTES - DECEMBER 16, 1998

- Mail:  If you live in Illinois or Omaha, you can get a bus ride home
  Saturday for $15.
  1st Annual Riverfest Rivalry.  "Compete against other student
  organizations for the chance to win fabulous prizes" - by volunteering,
  attending events, participating, etc.  Only 21 weeks away!
  Iowa Women's Basketball: "Creating our own"  chance for students to
  win free tuition for a semester at every game.

  A newsletter for student organizations, with a schedule for MLK, Jr.
  Human Rights Week 1999, and our event is listed.  "Future Times of
  Challenge & Controversy:  Science Fiction as a Gateway to Human Rights
  Solutions"  7-9pm, Jan. 20, Grant Wood Room, IMU.
- ICON:  Nothing new.
- Mindbridge:  $10 received from Amazon so far.
- Gamicon's mailing is out.
  There will be an organizational meeting for Gamicon, Inc., tenatively
  on Jan. 17, probably in the evening, depending on whether or not people
  can come.  At the meeting, a board of directors will be voted on.

  RPGA fellowship game day Saturday.  Cost is $1.  11am - 9pm at Legends.
  Wrapping at Barnes&Noble was fun.
- Anime show at Marty's Sunday Dec. 27, 1pm - whenever.
- There's an animation festival going on at the Bijou right now.
- We passed a bicycle helmet around to collect money to deposit in the
  SFLIS account at the IMU so we would have enough to rent the equipment
  for SIF Con.
- Game of Thrones by George RR Martin is the next book to be discussed
  at Barnes&Noble, probably on Jan. 10.
  They'll give you a 30% discount on it if you say you're buying it for
  the discussion.
  It's a very big book, but very good, lots of plot, no sacred cows,
  realistic in the way that nasty things can happen to the characters.
  And many other comments from people who've read it.
- Movies:  Star Trek: Insurrection.  Comments:  "Cheese", "Stupidest
  Star Trek moment ever," involving a Microsoft joystick.  Boob jokes.
  Maybe too much emphasis on the special effects instead of on the story.

  Prince of Egypt opens this weekend.
  New Star Wars game for Nintendo 64 is their best ever.
  South Park, the game.
  South Park, the pinball machine (just a rumor)
  South Park, the inflatable chair

  Lots of people downloaded the Star Wars trailer from ISCA, resulting
  in the biggest use of ISCA bandwidth ever.

- What brand of power tools were used to put the space station together?
- There IS a meeting next week, in case anyone's wondering.