Message-Id: <199910270242.WAA29489@mass-toolpike.mit.edu>
To: asa-exec@MIT.EDU
Subject: Crappy minutes from 26 Oct 1999
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:42:28 -0400
From: Philip Tan Boon Yew <philip@MIT.EDU>

Walker Room Tours on Thursday 28th of October, noon.  Ted & Jocelyn
will let us know where to meet (at walker).  No space in Student
Centre basement. LSC printers, if moved, need ventilation.

Controversial issue of the week: Singaporean Student Society: ad
space?  It's against Athena Rules of Use? Not really, since it
benefits a group rather than an individual.  Gut feeling: bad. General
assumption that it's always been 'no'.  Getting groups money for a
little logo space is good.  We think it's fine but it's out of our
jurisdiction. But still keep us in the loop. We have no reason to stop
you from doing it but keep us informed as to how things are going to
happen.  Lex will follow up on this.

Hindu Student Council. They still exist. Edmund was mad at them. Now
he's not there.  Jocelyn will let them know of their existence.

Asian Athletics Association. They were asked why they want to be
recognized. They want to be recognized because other asian cultural
groups have no time/money to support athletics. 'To promote well-being
and health'. Asian = KSA, ATS, SANGAM, etc. Athletics = Intramurals,
sports groups. Would it benefit non-asians? If they want money they
could apply to the revamped LEF (which no longer gives out $30,000 per
event). They probably want to be recognized for money. Could there be
any other reasons? CSC organizes intercollegiate events too.  The
opportunity to organize events can be done through existing means
other than starting their own group. Therefore, we don't recognize the
need for their group and they can come to talk to us during officer
hours. They can approach other Asian groups or LEF to come to Finboard
updates and ask for more money.  Brian will take care of them.

Next ASA meeting will be later because Jocelyn has an exam from 7:30
to 9:30pm.

Brian has mailed groups in which presidents/treasurers haven't changed
over time.

Rekeying of offices on 4th floor of W20. It's a good time for CAC to
revamp their key handling. Only students, staff and faculty get keys?
What about alums, affiliates? Lex will write up something to give us
all the perspective on the issue of rekeying and distribution of keys.

MIT Concert Band. Music dept. wants to take over control of concert
band from the student leaders. We will support them as a student
group, but Music dept. can take away their privileges (credit,
rooming, etc). They may want to talk to Dramashop & Shakespeare. Jen
Berk will communicate to the band.

Techies for Bradley. They never returned Jen Berk's mail. So we'll
ignore them until they reply.

Making a friendlier front to Setup ASA/Reaper. We just want to change
what the text says and reorder some of the options (like Setup should
be 1.) Jocelyn and Jen Berk will work on this together. asa-official
problem: it uses bcc to send to everybody. Pacific-Carrier-Annex can't
cope with the mass of bccs in order to weed out all the duplicated
email addresses. Solution: breaking up the file into thirds and
sending each separately. This splitter program will probably be
written by SIPB as external to the Reaper. Jocelyn will deal.

Alvar hasn't deposited all the AV checks from midway. He will give it
to Philip to deposit. It's about $800.

Alvar has talked to Planning office to try to grab bulletin boards
from Bldg 15 and 56. Things look good and he will hear back from them
on Friday.

GSC is happy about uber-board. GSC has no Edmund. They'd like to help
us. Jocelyn will be meeting with Roz Williams to discuss this
further. Jen Berk: UA is not adamantly opposed towards it. Don't
insult her bosses.

We went through the Financial situation. Money that we haven't
received: $5575 from ODSUE, $800 from Alvar's AV stuff, $1190 from
money untransferred from groups for their summer mailing. We have not
been charged $2500 for Midway furniture yet, which is covered by $1500
from Liz (?) and $1000 from the UA. This leaves us with a deficit of
$3-6.