Apr 15, 1999 15:19 from Native Alien
SFLIS MINUTES - APRIL 14, 1999

- Sience Fiction news, announcements were passed around:
    More stuff about Phantom Menace - line is already forming at a few
    theaters.  1st showing allowed is at 12:01am on May 19.  No more than
    8 minutes of previews allowed.  No passes for first 8 weeks.  And lots
    of other stuff.
    TNT to film "Animal Farm"
    Controversial Xena episode pulled.  In New Zealand.
    DS9 finale will bring closure.
    And more.
- Mail:  Students for John Kasich for president in 2000 would like
  people to show their support on Wednesday the 21st.
  UISG/OSL awards program and reception is Wednesday the 28th.
  Little Bop Noveau is doing a concert at the Wheelroom yesterday.
  Applications for the Dance Marathon committee are available.
  A copy of "Education Update"
  Iowa State Fair parade on Aug. 11 needs volunteers.
- Tomorrow is the "ides of April."  Taxes are due.
- Tonight after the meeting:  Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  6:30 in
  River Room 3 of the IMU.
- VilleCon is this weekend, not next.  Small mistake in our calendar of
  events for this month.
- This weekend:  lots of stuff going on.
     Mindbridge meeting Saturday the 17th, 2-5pm, Room 234 of the Clarion/
     Hampton hotel in Coralville.

     Expedition to Planet X.  Meet there at 6pm Saturday.

     SWAMP's big 4th anniversary anime show.  Sunday 1-8pm, C125 PBAB.
     With food, drinks (but nothing messy, please), prizes, people.
     And anime.
     Shamanic Princess 5&6 straight off the subtitling machine.
- At Barnes&Noble, the book "The Phantom Menace" by Terry Brooks goes
  on sale May 7, with 4 different covers available.  You can preorder it
  with the cover you choose, and they will ship it to your house if you
  want.  There's also a 30% discount available.  So far, at least one
  person has ordered all 4.
  Question:  Was the author allowed to see the script before writing
  the book?
- SF reading group is discussing "The Lost World" by Arthur Conan Doyle
  at Barnes&Noble, 7pm April 21.
- We have a table at Riverfest (in theory).  We left a note at their desk,
  since there's never anybody there and there's no way to email them and
  their website has very little information.  The date is April 24, but
  we don't know the time yet.
- If anyone wants SFLIS to reserve a room for them in the IMU for the
  1999-2000 academic year, let us know before May 1.
- We agree to allow Dreamwell Theater to reserve rooms under SFLIS's name
  like they've done before.  They'll give us ads in their program books
  if we want.
- Gamicon will put in their room requests after their meeting on the 24th.
- Only 8 episodes of Deep Space 9 left.
  Some theories about why:
     It's already been on for 7 years, and they don't want it to run
     longer than Next Generation.
     They wanted to avoid giving the actors the automatic wage increases
     that come with the 8th season.
- Demicon's hotel rooms are all booked up, but there are other rooms in
  the hotel still available.  But wait a minute - wasn't Demicon supposed
  to get ALL the rooms in the hotel?
- Anything else?
- Zebras.