MSCL Minutes
March 2^nd 2003

This is #4 in a year-long minutes series! Reporting from Russell's apartment in Amherst.... check out our most updated website: http://web.mit.edu/mukherji/www/mascl.html

1) Call to Order:

Call to order was at 3:45 pm. In attendance: Russell, Tiffany, Lisa, Erica, Shankar, and Denis. Yay for the Boston people bringing munchkins (no, silly, the DOUGHNUTS...)!!!

2) Tests:

Get working on them! Our esteemed President, Russell, is already done with his! They are due 3/23 AT THE LATEST, and send them to Tamara Bauer (Tambauer@aol.com). Each time your name appears, that's 25 questions!
Here are the assignments:
-Latin grammar: Lisa, Jeremy
-Derivatives: Adam, Adam
-Mythology: Russell, Russell
-History: Tracy, Tracy
-Life: Tiffany, Tiffany
-Mottoes/Abbreviations/Quotations: Mark, Jennifer
-Pentathlon: Viet, Viet
-Vocabulary: Tracy, Tracy

3) Convention:

How many people are planning to come to the MJCL Convention? EMAIL ME and let me know whether you will or will not be coming! If you are only coming for one day, let me know that too! We want to get an estimation both for judging purposes (to see how many people will be available each day) and because we want to get enough hotel rooms at the UMASS Campus Center hotel for people to sleep there. The dates are May 16-17... Here's the schedule, for those of you who might have missed it last time:
Friday
2:30-3:30 registration
3:30-4:30 General Assembly 1
4:30-5:45 academic testing; art judging
6-7 dinner
7-8:30 creative contests
7:30-10:30 dance and karaoke/coffee house
(i have left out the times for school fellowship and lights out.)
Saturday
7-8 breakfast
7:30-8 acad. tests and creative winners ribbons awarded
8-9 General Assembly 2 and voting
9-9:45 1st workshop and art viewing contest
9-10:30 certamen and oral academics
9-11:30 olympika and spirit games
11:15-11:45 chariot race
12-12:30 toga parade
12:30-2pm lunch and General Assembly 3 and final awards

5) Amendment:

From now on, NJCL Convention compensation amounts will be determined by the following formula: "Each person will get an equal percentage of his net expense (packet and transportation included)."

6) Adjournment/Next meeting:

The meeting was adjourned around 4:35. The next meeting will be April 13th, and 2 pm, somewhere in Boston...Tiffany will be making arrangements! Stay tuned for more info!