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By DAVID CHEN
MAY 31, 2005
a blitz game to a diamond-blackrun in downhill skiing."
The chess team has enjoyedenormous success, winning theUS Amateur Team West Championship. Most recently, the teamdefeated MIT in a special matchfor the second time in as manyyears. The club meets every Friday at 8 PM in the Page HouseDining Hall.
The chess club holds the eventevery year with a particular eyetowards attracting new membership. In this respect the eventwas a success, attracting manynew and strong players. Whilethe chess team is strong, regularclub meetings are very relaxedand friendly toward the novice."You won't be expected to play20 simultaneous chess gamesyour first day," joked Hummel,referring to his own simultaneousexhibitions, which have becomea popular fixture of the PrefroshWeekend Club Fair.
By D. ZEB ROCKLIN
their level, and that all would beable to play until the final round.
Caltech's two resident masters,Patrick Hummel and EugeneYanayt, defended their territory,finishing first and second respectively. Mike Lucas finishedthird and was the only player todefeat Hummel in even a singlegame, but was ineligible for prizes. Instead, Alexei Dvoretskiiand Marat Gataullin split thirdplace. Talented "novices" Andrei Petcherski and Nikita Panasenko finished first and second,respectively, among novices.A full crosstable of the event isavailable at www.its.caltech.edu/-citchess/news.htmt All told,the chess club gave away $500 inprizes.
The quick games led to exciting play, sharp contrast to theimage of chess as anesthetic. "Iforgot how high you can get playing competitive chess," notedGataullin. "I can only compare
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
The Caltech Chess hosted thethird annual Caltech Blitz ChessChampionship Friday, May 20th
in the Page House Dining Hall.The event was free and open tothe public, with members of theCaltech community receivingprizes. The event was a success-it attracted thirteen players, most from the Caltech community, but some traveling fromas far as Duke University.
Six rounds were played, witheach pair of players playing twogames per round. The gameswere quick, lasting no longerthan ten minutes, quite a contrastto classical time controls, whichoften result in six hour games.Fortunately, the tournament waswell-run by chess club presidentand veteran player Patrick Hummel, and the entire event wasover in only two and a half hours.Hummel used the Swiss pairingsystem, ensuring that playerswould be able to play others at
a South House in that all groupsdesired central courtyards. Themodels also included accessibleroofs and terraces.
In fact, the kits were quite thorough, with blocks representing almost all types of rooms included.Students placed the entertainmentand computer rooms, the RA'sapartment, the lounges and diningroom. The kits included two typesof dining rooms, one with rectangular tables like the current onesand and one with circular ones,such as those near Chandler, togive less of a cafeteria feel. Somelounge blocks included kitchenettes while other blocks represented only full-sized kitchens.
Responding to the request to accommodate visitors, students alsohad to place lockers, althoughmost groups decided not to usethem. Most groups also chose toplace bicycle racks under terracesto provide some cover. In addition, they could include a laundry room in the house, but mostgroups decided against this. Onemandatory addition was an elevator to ensure the entire housewould be wheelchair accessible.Students, accustomed to the dailyexercise provided by stairs, optedto place the elevator in a comer ofthe house.
One aspect common to the proposals for a central courtyard ismultiple entryways. At the sametime, some students expressedconcern over the noise that couldcome from the courtyard. To ameliorate this, one group requestedthat all bathrooms and communal rooms, such as the entertainment room, face the courtyard sothat fewer students would haveto study with hammers ringingin their ears. Despite student requests, parking in the houses isnot currently in the plan.
Tom Mannion hosted the event,wisely choosing to hold the workshop indoors and providing lotsof delicious appetizers and colddrinks. In addition, his fabulouscooking was a great treat. MargoMarshak also attended this event.The third workshop met Sunday,May 29th
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Students Play
Students designed their idealNorth House last Saturday in thesecond workshop discussing renovations to the North Houses.
During the previous workshop,the students brainstormed properties of an ideal alley. They wantedrooms that could change size.Vertical height is also importantto allow students to build lofts.Besides just constructing lofts,the attendees felt that the architecture should facilitate a widevariety of customizations.
North House residents alsowant more private bathrooms,including smaller bathrooms, potentially even singles, and bathrooms in more private areas. Atthe same time, many desire moreaccess to daylight within thehouse. This would probably require wider rooms, to allow morewindow space.
Others requested more connections to common spaces, including multi-floor common spacesand direct connections to outdoorareas from these areas. Finally,students noted that they wantedto accommodate visitors.
Buzz Yudell, one of the partnersof the firm planning the NorthHouse renovations, noted four alternatives to consider. Current requests would reduce room countssince we would be wideningrooms and adding lounge areas.Yet, the Institute has requestedthat the new North Houses hold322 beds, so more than two storiesmay be needed. Caltech has evenrequested that the arrangement allow space for the construction ofa fourth North House.
The primary exercise of thisworkshop was to model the houseitself based on the descriptions ofan ideal alley. Pageboys, Lloydies and Rudds split up into fivegroups, each with about five students.
Each group received a large kitof blocks of different colors andsizes. Longer blocks representedalleys, and the individual roomsand bathrooms were visible onthe pieces.
After about an hour, the groupspresented their models. The moststriking trait is that all modeled
VOLUME CVI, NUMBER 29
or junior year who has shownexcellence in scholarship asdemonstrated in class activitiesor in preparation of an originalpaper or essay in any subjectarea.
y oe n ge
The winners of th~ 2005 Undergraduate Academic Awards
Mathematics has been chosenas this year's winner of theFredrick J. Zeigler MemorialAward. This award is given toa pure or applied mathematics student in the sophomore
Physics, received this year'sSigma Xi award. This awardis given to a senior for an outstanding piece of original scientific research.
Yang Chen, a junior in Electrical Engineering and PatrickHummel, a junior in Appliedand Computational Mathematics are this year's recipientsof the Henry Ford n ScholarAward. This prize is given tothe student in Engineeri]}g andApplied Science with the bestacademic record at the end ofthe third year of undergraduatestudy.
Po-Ru Loh, a sophomore in
By MALINA CHANG
quirements of specific courses.The Jack E. Froehlich Me
morial Award is for outstanding juniors in the top 5% of theclass. Patrick Hummel, a juniorin Applied and ComputationalMathematics and Corinna Zygourakis, a junior in Biology,were selected this year.
Mithun Diwakar, junior inBiology, won the Arie J. Haagen-Smit Memorial Award,which is given to a chemist orbiologist who has shown academic promise and has maderecognized contributions toCaltech.
Brant Carlson, senior in
2005
The Green, Froehlich, Haagen-Srnit, Sigma Xi, HenryFord II Scholar and ZeiglerAwards were presented on May25, 2005, at a luncheon in theAthenaeum, hosted by Deanof Students Jean-Paul Reveland Associate Dean BarbaraGreen.
Trevor Wilson .a junior inMathematics received theGeorge W. Green Prize. TheGreen Prize is awarded to anundergraduate student in anyclass for original research, anoriginal paper or essay or otherevidence of creative scholarship beyond the normal re-
ert. Besides the misplaced costof this venture, conservationists must question the ethicsof wasting a subsidized commodity rare to and necessaryfor the entirety of SouthernCalifornia. On the other hand,the dominant drought-resistantplants which do populate theareas surrounding the sevenHovses are cheap, ugly ferns.Instead of investing in moreattractive desert flowers andwhatnots, the Institute annually replaces the grass,less of condition, and to encourage the new growth with
fertilizer mere feetfrom students' rooms.
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Adam Craig Lisa TranEditor Business Manager
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lro>nic:ally, oneoff campus is it re
minds you why and how muchyou like Caltech. But you do haveto see the rest of the world to remember what you like about ithere. The grass is always greener.
Nearly every week day,for an arbitrary half hour between 9 and lOAM, a hybridof oversized lawnmower andundersized SUV plows alongto ensure that the grass southof Marks House is of uniformlength. Most Techers remainindifferent to whether thisproperty holds for their own
much more so for thewide patches of turf crammedbetween paved walkways.
To offset the continuous layered removal of grass, Caltechbuys an absurdly large quan-
of water to spray onthis grass so that it continuesto grow despite in a des-
By GALEN LORAM
I have never understood why, to enjoy the wonders of the citywhenever Beckman Auditorium around us. The public events stuffhosts an event, almost no students above can be a great escape, butattend. I was at the performance venturing even further can be wellof the Capitol Steps, a hilariously worth the leg work. Go and see aawesome musical political satire concert at any of the there thirtygroup who come every year to something concert venues to seeCaltech, a couple weeks ago. It any of the many bands who arestunned me to see a total of twelve always coming through town. Goother students, not counting ush- to a club and dance for a night;ers, three of whom were there it proves amazingly cathartic. Webecause I had bought four tickets have three really great indepenand invited them along. Incred- dent coffee-shops in Pasadenaibly good seats in the fourth row that are great places to go andcost as little as $5, an amazing hang out, read, work, chat withdeal. The key is to early in the friends or just our beauti-year, in June or to the ticket ful weather: Zona Rosaoffice. If you ask what will and Equator. musicbe good, the and is your preference, have thefolks in the ticket are Chandler theto But if like and so manytics at I strcmgJly ellcoura:geyou to goets for next Ifit lives up to even an echo of thestandard of two years, it
be sweet. Take ofand the that
tickets to threeonce,And not even
On the sameto enj10yillg
away from not inpelt1TIam~nt sense, but in the sense
Caltech is tiny. And at timesa bit claustrophobic.
Escaping from the houses everyso often can be really refreshing,a great chance to meet some otherinteresting folks, a terrific chance
By Jacob Leonard King
Onwho was foJllo'willg
of a South Pa:;adenaron station. also phot(lgraplledthe license on carwhich he As I walkedhe drove side of me
"We're out to get you". Thatsame I provided the SouthPasadena Police with both of thesepictures and reported his threat tome. The South Pasadena Policewould not let me make a criminalreport of this 9113/2003 incident,but they did take my report of iton 121112003. The South PasadenaPolice never contacted me againabout any of the above incidentsdespite the fact that the report thatthey took on 12/1103 showed anassociation between the guy whothreatened me on 911312003 andthe guy who tried to put my eyeout on 3/812003.
Since June of 1994, when I firstinformed the Sheriff's that I mightseek relief in the courts, I havebeen under perpetual surveillance,and white trucks have recentlystarted tailgating me persistently.
The above are just some of theincidents to which I have beensubject.
I maintain that all of the abovefires were arsons, not accidents,made against me in retaliation formy suing the Sheriff's and for reporting perjury to the District Attorney's Office. It is hypocriticalthat the government sentences aformer Caltech student to severalyears in prison for arson while ig
my allegations.W. Stone 05123/05
and referred to someone else whowas not even present. The guywho was not present at the incident did not even have his driver'slicense number on the report, soeven the South Pasadena PD haveno basis to dispute my claim thathe was not there on 3/8/2003. TheSouth Pasadena Police never interviewed me regarding my 4/29/04complaint letter to them despitemy having contradicted everything that the South Pasadena Police officer had written in his report about the 3/812003 incident. Ifind it amazing that a Police Chiefshows no interest in allegations ofa false police report.
On 3/1712003 my car failed tostart. After checking the enginecompartment, I observed sparksde:scending down the acceleratorrod. inside my ap,mrnerlt,
a tow heardto be
Pasadena Fire Department witha complaint that someone hadentered my Pasadena apartmentwithout my permission and putpapers on top of my furnace.
On 9/1912002 I also gave a copyof this complaint to my PasadenaApartment Management.
On 101712002 my PasadenaApartment management gave methirty day's notice to move out ofmy Pasadena apartment.
This notice made no mentionof my having owed any money.On moving day I discovered thatI had been sharing my Pasadenaapartment's locked, two-car garage with a Los Angeles Policeofficer, whom I had never seen inuniform. the apartment'smanagement and I had keys to thisgarage. discovered he wasLAPD I wrote them themto because I had
to the Pasadena Policeseveral incidents of vandalism tomy car that occured while it hadbeen lockedside of this At',IiN''''C IVlustan,g.
On 211912003 LAPD Command-er wrote me methat would not himbecause had no connection tothe incidents of vandalism to mycar.
On the morning of 2/24/2003,from the Sheriff's, I faxed the LosAngeles Times a letter expressing my dissatisfaction with theLAPD's failure to question theirofficer.
On the evening of 2124/2003 theapartment building next door tomine burned. The South PasadenaFire Department wrongly typedmy address on their 2/2412003Fire Report.
On 3/812003 I was the victim ofa strong-arm robbery in a SouthPasadena restaurant after I photographed two men who followed meinside. One of the men had tried tostart a fight with me on a previousoccasion. I asked the South Pasadena Police Officer who arrivedat the scene to send me a PoliceReport of the incident, to which hereplied that, if he wrote a report, Iwas going to jaiL
On 3121103 I wrote the SouthPasadena Police Chief with acomplaint against him. Afterthree written requests to the SouthPasadena Police for a report ofthe 3/8/2003 incident, I finaly received it on 4/2212004.
On 4129/04 I wrote the SouthPasadena Police Chief explainingthat the report of the 3/812003 incident was wrong in that it failedto mention the guy who tried toput out my eye with a karate blowOn 9/1912002 I provided the
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An open letter from BRIAN W. STONE
Teeher self-amusement1-",,,",,,,,;.,,,,,. #53:hannstE~rs in car'dbclard
On 6/4/1996 I filed an employment lawsuit against the County ofLos Angeles Sheriff's. I was thenand still am an employee of theCounty of Los Angeles Sheriff's.In November of 1996 my sevenyear old daughter and I were inour car when we got trapped immediately in front of a burningcar. We were so boxed in that wecould not drive away. Since wewere downhill of the burning car,our car almost caught fire. And, aswe pulled away a stream of flamesfonowed us down the hill. I can
imagine what would havehappened if that stream of flameshad flowed under our gas tank.I wrote the FBI, and they wroteback that it was not their jurisdiction. The judge signed the Statement of Decision for the abovelawsuit on 8129/97.
On 6/512000 I wrote theof Los District Attornev'sOffice a feHow employee
the ofabove lawsuit.
On 6/912000 Ms. Valerie AenUe-a District A nnn,<",v
with the said that heroffice asked the Sheriff's Inter-
Criminal Bu-reau to in'testigateof I on
To no one from theSheriff's InternalBureau has contacted me regarding this accusation, despite my letter to the Sheriff's expressing myavailability to discuss the matter.
On 61251200 I I was attackedfrom behind as I walked home inthe City of Pasadena California,neccessitating a cast on my wrist.Despite the pain, I still managedto make my appointment with aprivate investigator the followingday in San Diego. Being dissatisfied with the Pasadena Police Department's investigation into myabove attack I made several callsto them to get them to find my attacker. During one of these calls,Pasadena Police Sgt. Villalobostold me that they did not interviewGary Wilson, the only witness tothe attack, because Wilson's bossat Kiewit-Washington said thatWilson knew nothing and that hedid not want to talk with the Police.
On 9/512002 I wrote the U.S.Department of Justice to complain about the Pasadena PoliceDepartment's investigation intothe 6/251200 I attack.
On 9/612002 I also wrote theGrand with the same com-
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USMC base after a brawl sparked byhis expansion of Marine into "My assrides in Navy equipment." To avoidsimilar banishment, I paused until thewaitress disappeared into the kitchenand then sparked the lighter, turningthe cup into a small fireball for thenext five seconds. I should also mention that this was much funnier at thetime due to the missing bit of anotherplant in which Caltech should investto replace the monotonous grass. This
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On night at Carrow's. while a freshman of both Dabney and RickettsHovse affiliation filled the top spaceof the pepper shaker with salt and replaced the salt with Sweet'N Low sothat the next diner would be able toenjoy sweetened eggs or fries, I wasbusy discreetly filling my empty water gl~ss with butane from a Bic lighter. At this point, I recalled a friendof mine who had previously beenthrown out of a Denny's adjacent to a
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..Laugh now, because youclowns have been on double secret probation since the beginning of this semester" -- DeanWormer, Animal House. Sincethe beginning of recorded history, college students have engagedin endless high jinks against thestodgy, inflexible administration.[More precise:] The list of prohibitions at a normal college readslike an itinerary of mayhem. Theadministration matches deeds topunishments like a scoring guide:everyone knows how serious eachinfraction is and thereby how exciting it must be. Students are atwar with the taskmasters, mock-
security and the ad-mercy.
This is not the case at Tech. Welive with very fewand partially erlfon~ing our:selvesunder an taboos
have are not meant to be bro-there is nor hon-
fun. We Techersand then. We
cardmal rulesanswers our gri,ew)Usalso need rules
I have heard thathas a list of pranks that earnfrosh points to draw them out oftheir rooms and away from theirhomework sets after rotation, buta vital catalyst is missing. The listof provocative activities needsan accompanying list of threatsagainst them from the administration. As a frosh and even now as ajunior I am irrationally drawn tothe unreasonably forbidden, thedangerous, the risky. A gamblingman hungers for high stakes, andonly the administration can provide those stakes.
The Deans' letter concerning activities on Ditch Day wasa good start. I demand a similarguide to life in general at Caltech.Tell us that if we go through thesteam tunnels we will be BadBoys. Tell us not to break intospecific locations. Challengeour nerdy machismo by sayingthe locks are impregnable. Letus have a little fun by being theDean Wormer of our school oncein a while. Put us on double secret probation, and give us someexcitement.
4 THE CALIFORNIA TECH NEWS MAY 31, 2005
The Caltech BiotechnologyClub invited Dr. Donald Kohn ofthe Childrens' Hospital Los Angeles to discuss current clinicalresearch in gene therapy this pastWednesday, May 25.
Sophomore Xin Ye introducedthe speaker as one of the leading clinical researchers in genetherapy. Dr. Kohn began by describing Severe Combined Immune Deficiency, a rare but fataldisease found in one in 500,000babies. Without medication, thesebabies die within a year of birth.Thus, CHLA draws patients fromthe entire West Coast and usuallytreats one child at a time. SCIDessentially means that the body isnot producing T and B cells, vitalto its immune function, in sufficient number.
Initially the Immunoglobulin Gfrom newborn's mothers protectsthem from disease. None the less,it is possible to diagnose thesenewborns by analyzing their Tcells.
The traditional approach to thisproblem has been to transplantbone marrow, which occurred forthe first time in 1968. A transplantfrom a matched sibling has a 90%chance of curing this disease. But,such a sibling is often unavailable,so transplants usually use the parents' bone marrow.
To perform this operation, thedoctor must first deplete the parents' bone marrow of T cells toprevent them from attacking thenew host. One fortunate consequence of scm is that the child
has no T cells, guaranteeing thatthe child cannot reject the newbone marrow. The transplant froma parent has a 33% success rate,based on 15 such procedures todate.
In 1972, researchers discoveredfor the first time a genetic causeof SCID: a range of adenosine deaminase gene defects that cause20% of cases. They first clonedthe gene in 1983, and research ingene therapy began in 1990.
The defect in the ADA gene prevents production of the enzyme,so one treatment available since1990 is the PEG-ADA replacement therapy. This is a bi-weeklyinjection, which is a difficult procedure to perform on a child. Themain concern, however, is that itcosts $200,000 to $500,000 peryear. In California, this expensecomes out of tax dollars. For allits faults, the treatment is rathersuccessful, with 83% survivingfor around 10 years, and, althoughthe T cell count is under 10% ofthe normal range, the children aredoing fine.
To address the concerns withmore conventional treatments, researchers considered using genetherapy to treat the illness. scmwas a logical choice for the firstdisease to treat with gene therapy,because fixing only a few stemcells may be enough to generateenough T cells to correct SCID. Inaddition, reports indicate that fixing a few stem cells can spontaneously cure SCID.
The main tool for delivering the
By DAVID CHEN
fix is a retrovirus, which can carrya payload of two to four thousandbase pairs. In the 1st clinical trialin 1995, the researchers extractedsamples from the two patients,one two and one four years old,and replaced them with fixed Tcells every month. These T cellslasted around 10 years. Despite tissuccess, the two patients were onPEG-ADA before treatment andduring the entire 10 years.
Another concern is that retroviruses integrate the payload atrandom. Furthermore, the neededHematopoietic Stem Cells arefrequently in the non-dividing,GO, phase of their mitosis cycle,but vectors only work if the HSCare dividing.
The Children's Hospital's firsttrial involved three ADA-SCmpatients and demonstrated no adverse side effects but no significant clinical benefits either. Yet,American studies do not allowthe patients to go off PEG-ADA,which may affect the results.
After designing better vectorsin mice and better growth factors,the CHLA planned a second trialwith 10 patients on PEG-ADA.They applied for approval on Aug1999 and obtained it Jun 200l.They had four patients participatefrom Aug 200l-Jan 2002, fromwhom they discovered that thegene therapy treatment workedbetter with younger patients.
At about the same time, a groupin Milan treated 8 kids with moreastounding results. They foundchildren from third world coun-
tries, however, who never hadaccess to PEG-ADA and who didnot receive any during the study.They went so far as to administerbusulfan, a compound they usedto kill the HSC in the childrenbefore infusing the correct bonemarrow cells. Over the first 6-9months after treatment, the children regained immune function.
This left the other 60% of casesscm, 40% of which are the Xlinked form. Fortunately, a curerecently became available, providing patients with good healthfor the past couple years.
On October 3rd , 2002, the USgovernment suspended genetherapy trials after 3 of 10 suchpatients in France developed Tcell leukemia. Two of them wereyoung and received an especiallylarge number of transduced, orfixed, cells. The vector integratedat a site that turns on adjacent cancer-causing genes, causing insertional oncogenesis.
Scientists still have high hopesfor gene therapy, since bone marrow transplant only provides 6070% survival with half the patientsfailing to make protective antibodies. In contrast, fixing the HSC forxscm yielded 81 % success withfull immune restoration.
The CHLA group then underwent a series of holds from September 2002 until now. With 8committees that independentlyneed to approve the protocols,consent forms, and other paperwork, the group hires two peoplefull-time to handle these papers.
Dr. Kohn then described futureplans to improve the delivery vectors. He described a lentivirussimilar to HIV that can enter nondividing cells and carry a largerpayload with less risk of insertional oncogenesis. Another deliverymethod called the sleeping beautytransposon uses two plasmids forsite-specific integration.
Dr. Kohn then took questionsfrom the audience. Some members asked about the efficiency ofthe approval process. He responded that each committee feels thatonly it understands the situation,making it difficult to remove anyof them from the process. He alsoexplained that the research is notyet ready for biotech or big pharmaceutical companies, becausethe timelines are too long to makea return in time for the next fiscalquarter.
Someone also asked whetherother countries had less stringentrequirements. Dr. Kohn noted inreply that China approved the firstgene therapy product very quicklyand has already made it availableto its public.
After the talk, a delicious dinnerwas available to the audience. TheBiotech Club is an organization ofgraduate students and undergraduates who meet to discuss andlisten to lectures in biotechnology. Xin Ye, Vice President oftheclub, encourages undergraduatesto attend, "The Biotech club is agreat opportunity for undergraduates to explore career options inthe field."
If you think we missed anything or have any requests forsocial events, email Dima [email protected] or Rocky [email protected]. Have fun!!
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MAY 27TH, 2005
Present: Kelly Lin, MichelleWyatt, Peter Foley, Warner Leedy,Dima, Todd Gingrich, Parvathy,Ryan Farmer
Guests: Jason Yosinski,Kewell, Po-Ru Loh, Daniel Stolarski, Nicholas Halpern-Manners
Call to Order: 12:08:72 in theafternoon
Jason Yosinski, Kewell, andPo-Ru Loh to ask for multihousefunding for Avery/Blacker Social. ..$100/house, $200 total. (60-0, passes)
Jason and Kewell want moremoney. Averites plan to party itup, Hawaiian style... getting aHawaiian guitarist, dancing, food,etc. Planning to include hip-hop,then have live performance, thenmore. To occur at some point inthe future, rumored fall but theycould be trying to trick us. Requesting $150 in multihousefunding. (6-0-1, passes)
Meng-Meng requests $200funding for new-ARC-old-ARCdinner. We recommend askingTom Mannion. Tabled.
Meng-Meng requests $300 inTOTEM funding. Already have$3700, have approached Provostand Bookstore, have to cut pagesif don't receive funding by end ofnext week. (7-0-0)
Stolarski wants $30 for Walk ofShame, in addition to what wasawarded from Prank Club. (6-01, passes)
Formal's tomorrow. Yeee-hawr. Professional photographer,posting thumbnails online, purchase online. Peter wants to bephotographed riding dinosaurs.Dirna thinks that's pornographic- he approves.
Meeting Adj@lH."'ned~ 12:42pm
Adventure. Heh! Excitement.Heh! A Jedi craves not thesethings.
Parvathy "Yoda" Menon