SFLIS Minutes

SFLIS MINUTES - JANUARY 20, 1999

Can you hang a candy cane from your nose?
- Mail:  A copy of Student Leader magazine.
         A student organization desktop computer survey.
- Waitress comes in with menus.  Anybody need one?  Guess not.
- Candy canes free for the taking.
- More mail:  UI Human Rights committee is seeking nominations for the
  Philip G. Hubbard Human Rights Award.
- Mindbridge:  Had a board of directors meeting last night.  The budget
  for ICON is tenatively approved, depending on how the hotel behaves.
  Notes from the meeting will be posted on the Mindbridge website, at
  www.mindbridge.org
  The November meeting will be on March 6.  Time and place to be determined,
  but they're hoping for 6pm at the public library.
- A new face!  So we do introductions:  If you had a monitor lizard, what
  would you name it?
  Atari, Dinner, Hey you, Guinness, Phydeaux, Cigarette Smoking Man, Gojira,
  Ishmael, Tiamat. (Plus a few others that I missed.)
- Let's move on.
- Gamicon:  Preregister soon.  Deadline is the 31st.
  They have guests!  The design team for JDQuest's Dragon Epic.  They
  will be demonstrating it and maybe even selling it.
  Gamicon, Inc. is having a call-to-membership meeting at the Iowa City
  public library, meeting room B, 4pm on Feb. 20.  Anyone who wants to
  can be a member.  If you can't be there, write to one of the members
  of the board and tell them you're interested.  Contact Jon or Michele
  Maakestad, Andy Wheeler, Jeremy Hitchcock. (Did I miss anyone?)

  And what is Gamicon?  It's Iowa City's oldest gaming fair, held this
  year on Feb. 26-28.  Registration is $12 until Jan. 31.
  If you want to run an event, call Jeremy Hitchcock 319-626-2180.
  Or email or visit their website.  www.sflis.org/gamicon
  Lots of stuff on the website.  You can also get info. by visiting
  any game store in the area.
  Gamicon will be so much fun you'll be sorry if you have to sleep
  and miss something.  If you don't have fun, you can take some special
  memory erasing drugs.
- SIF Con:  10am - 6pm on Feb. 6.  There are flyers put up all over the
  place.  Letters have been sent to all area SF-related groups.  Bring
  your friends, neighbors, dogs, cats.  Guide dogs are allowed in the
  building.  Bringing a cat in without being noticed may be a problem,
  but we came up with some ideas which might work.
  Setup is at 9am, teardown is after 6.
  Applause for Catherine for planning this, thanks to Michele for doing
  the flyers.
- Anime:  There's a show this Sunday, the 24th.  1-8pm, C125 PBAB.
  The Ruroni Kenshin movie, plus some popular tv episodes will be shown.
  Next show is Feb. 7 - women fightine women.
  No news from AnimeIowa, except that last year's bill is paid.
  If you see Noel, congratulate him.  He's been busy lately.
  Anime show flyers were passed around.  Thanks to everyone for taking
  the defective ones.
- Elections:  New nominations for scapegoat and mascot.  As of right now,
  the nominations are:
     president:       Catherine Schaff-Stump

     vice president:  Lynda Sherman

     secretary:       David Leach

     treasurer:       Pete Wezeman, Mike Alexander

     scapegoat:       Marty Milder
                      RC Nelson (Our current scapegoat.  He wasn't
                      at the meeting, so we nominated him.)

     mascot:          the ferrets, Ohmu, the mice that Ohmu eats,
                      the "monitor" lizard that fell on Lynda's head
  Elections are scheduled for Wednesday Feb. 3.
- Shortly after the meeting, starting at 7pm there was a talk/interactive
  discussion thingy:  Future Times of Challenge and Controversy: Science
  Fiction as a Gateway to Human Rights Solutions.  And there were people
  there!  And they participated.
- At the same time as that, there was a discussion of Game of Thrones
  at Barnes&Noble.  Next month's discussion will be Clay's Ark by Octavia
  Butler.  After that will be science fiction through the century.
- Movies:  Virus is here.
- Anything else?  Going once...going twice......It's a wrap.