Members Present:
Brian Neenan
Valerie Schmidt
Peter Catlin
Allyson Whipple
Kimberly Zito
Scott Brown
Marta Evans
While we wait for everyone to
arrive, we start hitting Brian. Naturally. We
determine that candy does not come out of him. General disappointment
ensued.
Once high spirits and candy-seeking endeavors had ceased, there was
discussion
of the recent low attendance at practices. Where is everyone? We miss
you!!!
General discussion on the
issues of the timing of Igor lessons and Tuesday
practices. Are these times convenient for people, or should we try to
move
them around? Input, people!! Give us input!!!
Assigned one officer to each
practice night, so that Allyson can occasionally
have a break. Because we like her. And if we keep her from dancing long
enough, maybe we can get candy out of HER!!!
Fun Events: We want more
Suggestions on the table--
-movie night out- see "Shall We Dance" at the theater?
-dress-up night planning
-club photo
Digression into the fact that
Igor cannot dance lindyhop. We feel superior.
(We can't do lindyhop either, but it's nice to feel superior)
Discuss what to practice in the
upcoming week. But since that week is gone,
we'll skip what they were.
Discuss collection of money for Purdue Comp., Driver certification
December Dance
-where can we get funding?
-last year we got money from ODADAS, but they made us decorate with
christmas
trees
-we hated the christmas trees
-not in general, just THESE trees
-Allyson doesn't like fun/parties
Meeting adjourned.
Members Present:
Allyson Whipple
Brian Neenan
Peter Catlin
Marta Evans
Scott Brown
Jeff Force (who has a cool name, but doesn't care whether you call him
Jeff or
Jeffrey)
Valerie Schmidt
Meeting opens with the usual
skirmishing. Some light action, but no blood
spilled.
Environmental banter.
Marta: "We have not proved to my satisfaction that we are capable of
messing
with nature and knowing the consequences."
Take that as your lesson for the day.
We have applied for funding for the December Dance-- need a better name for it
Brian has emailed Kimberly
-calling Purdue people about housing (we have a club long distance
code!!! how
cool is that?)
-need to harass people about Starball (cause we like to harass people)
-Jeff has plane tix. Yay for Jeff.
-need to hold a deadline class
Brian has something orange on
his ear, which brings the meeting to a halt for
several minutes.
Need DJ for the dance. Discuss possibilities.
Brian tries to kill a fly by
flinging a bowl at Marta. He explains that he
wanted to kill the fly with his "ninja bowl."
Marta: "When that sentence crossed your brain, how did it not come to
your
attention that it was really stupid?"
Return to subject of December Dance
Getting money (because money is
pretty and green and we like it)
-funds are limited this year
-we gots connections
Have reserved Pierce for 7:30
onwards
-Allyson doesn't want to be cleaning up all night
Do we have practice on Sunday?
Plans for Wednesday practice:
-run through dances
-dress up
-photo at 10:30
Schedule for dances
Meeting is adjourned.
Members Present:
Peter Catlin
Kimberly Zito
Brian Neenan
Scott Brown
Jeff Force
Valerie Schmidt (tonight holding three offices)
Our illustrious president was
stuck in line to perform her civic duty, and
thus was unable to attend. We miss her dearly, and there was much
weaping and
gnashing of teeth.
Inevitably, the meeting began
with tense discussion of the current election.
All were very concerned. Much was conjectured.
The december dance was
discussed to open the meeting.
-There was a conflict with Kenyon Afterdark's bowling event, but they
have
offered to move their event to Friday. Such is the power of the force.
-More talk about DJs. Ksenia is giving us a list of campus DJs, but
Kimberly
is going to start her own search because she's cool like that.
-We need to rent sound equipments from the sound techs. Kimberly can
handle
that too. She has many skills. I leave it to you to guess the rest of
them.
-The Magic Money People (BFEC) are under the mistaken impression that
we are
going to have a live band. We must disillusion them while still keeping
our
money.
At this point, it is determined that Brian is on crack. Who is surprised?
Will we move the dance from
Peirce to Gund? We think not.
Allyson will contact the movers. We love her.
16 Days of Activism - We
generally collect money for them. We will do it
again.
-collection box at the door of the dance
-send pre-drafted letter from ballroom email account
Starball
-Brian will contact you all about dates, deadlines and comp. fees.
-Please respond to him this time. He feels unloved.
Peter: "If the carrot doesn't work, use the stick." (for full comic
effect,
you must imagine this quote in Peter's mild, soothing voice)
We WILL be having practice tonight.
Dances for the week:
Tonight: Start by reviewing
Igor combinations, but spend the last hour doing
fun dances to unwind from our rigorous election day. Come play with us!
It'll be relaxing and amusing!!! Really, we're better than a court
jester.
Wednesday: the lesson will
focus on leading, featuring the skill of Scott,
Peter, Brian, and Kimberly. This does NOT mean, however, that girls
should
not attend. They can learn something about following, and girls should
know
how to lead too.
Sunday: Smooth and Standard
night, featuring Brian and Allyson, our smooth and
standard experts. (Brian got mad skeelz)
Monday: The crazy Russian returns.
What do the newbies want? The eternal question.
Kimberly announces that she
will need a replacement for the position of
Treasurer. We will be taking volunteers. If you volunteer soon, she will
have two weeks to train you in the secret art of Treasuring.
Meeting adjourned.
But we all still sit there.
Scott proposes a DDR party for
some point in the future. Much popular
support.
-Kimberly got mad skeelz
-Scott's on a mission to be Master of DDR. We wish him luck.
Meeting Diasporas.
Yes, I verbed "diaspora"
And I'm proud of it.
***Ballroom Meeting Prologue***
-We are waiting for Peter. -Allyson proposes that DDR is actually just
a good way for nerds to keep from getting fat. We mull the issue.
-We talk about Dig Dug. What, exactly, was occurring in that game? More
mulling.
-Allyson likes Brie. Scott, Valerie, and I are wary of the weird
coating and the way it creeps. Much mulling. -Peter enters!
***Ballroom Meeting Minutes for 11/9/04***
Minions present: Me, Kimberly, Scott, Allyson, Ben, Will, Jeff, Valerie, Brian, and the long-awaited Peter
***Starball
-Who is going? We attempt to count. It's more difficult than one would
suspect. -We need transportation. For us and the costumes, if we bring
them. We tell tales of the Pink Monstrosity and Matilda. -Allyson, ever
prompt, hands over her money for Starball. Yay for our exemplary
President!
***Winter Dance
-We'll need to decorate after lunch on Saturday. -We're going to have a
DJ and at least a five-dance exhibition by Igor and Svetlana
-What are we calling this thing?
Scott suggests "Snow Ball."
-The name Snow Ball is appropriated, at first in jest, then in seriousness. Or as much seriousness as we can muster. -We also muster some discussion of Valerie's skanky santa suit. Kimberly wants to see it. Actually, we all want to see it. Duh.
***Treasurer
-We need someone to step in as interim Treasurer until we hold
elections again.
-Kimberly deftly answers questions about the office. We will miss her
efficiency and scruples, not to mention her dancing.
***16 Days of Activism
-We'll collect money for it, as we have in previous years. We're good
people like that.
***Website issues
-Peter has them.
-Kimberly has mad HTML skills.
Kimberly humbly protests her mad HTML skills. Scott decides that if they're not mad, they're at least agitated. We agree.
-Kimberly has agitated HTML skills. We'll miss those too.
On that note, the meeting adjourns. Valerie says "Wicked." But we can't blame her, she's from Massachusetts.
Ballroom meetings. Every Tuesday at 5:30, in the meeting room adjoining
Lower Dempsey.
They're better than a Spanish soap opera. That's *really* good. I mean, Spanish soap operas have talking dogs, after all.
***Ballroom Meeting Minutes for 11/16/04***
***Having taken hostage Valerie, Peter, Brian, Allyson, Cori, Jeff, Scott, and me, the ballroom meeting cackles with laughter and forces us to discuss actual issues.
***Issue #1: Snow Ball
-We need the tables moved in Peirce. We discuss doing it ourselves, but
it seems like maintenance will do it instead...for a fee.
-We have a DJ! We talk about sound equipment and acceptable music.
Student DJs are awesome.
-The decor will have a theme of minimalism. In other words, no
Christmas trees everywhere. But we'll certainly have pretty lights.
-Igor and Svetlana are doing a five dance exhibit for $500. It will be
a spectacular exhibit of what we will never be capable of. Still, we
love them around our raging jealousy.
-We will have money for food. Food rocks Allyson's socks.
-The dance will start at 9:30
[Brian does an imitation of Lindy Hop with his arms. He looks like he's pretending to be a helicopter.]
[Valerie decides that "Oh my God" crossed with "Oh my Lord" makes "Oh my Gourd," which is an ideal saying and should be used all the time.]
***Issue #1 1/2: New Directions
and Snow Ball
-We decide we will collect donations for New Directions at the door.
-Valerie will handle publicity for Snow Ball. As such, she must decide
how much information about New Directions should go on the posters.
Does everyone know what it is?
-It is a battered women's shelter. But do we say that on the posters?
[We decide "battered women" sounds like a finger food. Therefore, we are going straight to hell.]
***Issue #2: Elections!
-Nominate! Nominate! Dance to the music! (Five points if you know the
song I'm referencing.)
-Seriously though. We are holding elections on the 8th, and we want
nominations by Sunday, the 5th, by midnight. -Anyone in the club can
nominate anyone else in the club for any office. Valerie will make sure
everyone knows about the offices.
[Brian and Cori try to fight like ninjas. We must restrain them. As a result of tragic experience, we enforce the "No ninja anything" rule at meetings.]
[Brian, probably pouting because of the lack of ninja activity, salts his soda for about twelve minutes. Brian introduces us to the word "utiles," which is a unit of measurement which accurately describes how much salt he's wasting.]
***Issue #3: Peter's awesomeness
-Peter has all of this semester's minutes up on the website. Hail
Peter! Check it out!
[Meeting adjourns. We go out to spread the word of Gourd.]
***Ballroom Meeting Minutes for 11/30/04***
Present in body if not necessarily in mind: Jeff, Lindsey, Valerie, Brian, Peter, Allyson, Scott, and me.
[Discussion of men, fixing things, in kilts.]
[BRIAN: "If I had a kilt,
Valerie, would you ask for my screwdriver?"
VALERIE (brandishing her spoon): "You may end up with tastefully
seasoned tomato soup on your head...and that would be a waste of
oregano."]
***Budget hearing
-We want money. Allyson will ask for it at 10 am on Saturday. She might
wear a corset. Just for good measure.
-We like money. That's about all we've got to say about that, it seems.
***Igor's suggestion
-So, Igor suggested having a little social dance on a regular basis.
Hosted by the club, with club members there, but not exclusively
ballroom music or dancing.
-We consider. We look cute when we consider.
-We think maybe once a month we could do that, and it could be cool.
Thoughts?
[Peter moves that Brian be struck from the record. Scott moves that Brian be struck. I don't remember why. Not that it matters. Anarchy, like a blood-dimmed tide, is loosed upon the meeting.]
[Jeff thinks we're like a Coen brothers film. I agree. Several people must be told who the Coen brothers are.]
***Snow Ball
-Set-up on Saturday at 2 and 8:30. -We'll send out harping reminders.
-We have the pretty lights we need. Check.
-We'll get food and supplies at Kroger's and Wal-Mart on Friday at 7.
Check.
-We're cute when we're efficient.
[Allyson will cut Brian's hair. ALLYSON: "I'll go Ken doll on your ass." It seems to be pick on Brian night.]
[We look for purpose and find none. Meeting adjourned.]
These are the last minutes composed by me and/or Valerie, for we now pass the torch to the new secretary, Jeff. A few helpful hints, coming from my wealth of experience:
-Don't become a freakish mutational mixture of Marta and Valerie. We like you the way you are. -Be less lovably negligent than I have been. That will serve you well in most areas of life, I'm told. -Watch out for that torch. It's hot.
That's really all you need to know.
***Ballroom Meeting Minutes for 12/7/04***
The sacrificial lambs: Brendan, Ben, Valerie, Peter, Allyson, Scott, Jeff, me
***Budgets
-We have money for Igor lessons, but will need to look for outside
funding for other activities
-We discuss the budget form and process (we all need to know more about
it)
-We discuss possible extra funding: supplemental budget, KAD funds,
fundraisers, etc.
***Social Dances
-We are aiming for a social dance, open to the whole campus and with
more club-style dancing and music, in February
-We will see how this goes and possibly run one in March or April as
well
-At them, we might: "Have some food and hop around."
[We decide Igor would be a talented and catlike hitman.]
***Snow Ball
-Was tons of fun
-Raised $45 for New Directions, which we'll match out of our club
account
[Allyson was neither sending children porn nor distributing porn featuring children. Now I ask you: how likely is it, really, that BOTH these likely scenarios are untrue?]
[Valerie, of course, spent much of freshman year distributing "18+ College Girls." She blames it on her computer. Ha.]
[Dave, looking for a different meeting, wanders in for a moment and cannot escape our clutches.]
[JEFF: "Ben, you're like Mr. Burns poking Homer with a cattle prod, while Homer was in a panda costume." Amen, brother.]
[Has anyone noticed that we seem to be lacking other issues? Meeting adjourns.]
***
Congratulations to all the new (and old) officers. In case you missed the lineup that Valerie sent out, here they are again:
President: Allyson "Our Beloved
Leader" Whipple
Vice President: Marta "Puppy Eyes" Evans
Comp. Coordinator: Valerie "The Dance of Joy" Schmidt
Treasurer: Brendan "Strongbad" Cox
Secretary: Jeff "Subliminal Messages" Force
WebMaster: Peter "The Minimalist" Catlin
Historian: Lindsey "Artistic Dork" Randol
See you all tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:30 in the meeting room attached to Lower Dempsey for our first meeting.
Someone wear a panda costume.