The following is a compilation of quotes from Honors Council minutes over the last academic year--quite obviously a solemn and serious occasion every time.

Mike would like crayons to color minutes.                                      (10.13.03)

Social Event – Haunted Theater.
-           22 honors students attended.
-           There were forty-seven (47) monsters.
-           Kara, unfortunately, was stabbed.                                   (10.27.03)

Discussion of the possibility of underclassmen donating/transferring their print credits to seniors.  Sarah suggests a paper mill on campus. Mike explains that we really don’t need the nature center anyway now that Dr. Lowman has come and gone.  (11.03.03)

Question: Why do we order olive pizza?                                     (11.03.03)

Digressions: Mike’s amazement at how the things he says are reported in the minutes, Kara’s glee at the lack of olive pizza, the quality of the paper the minutes were printed on, discussion of the Honors formal of years past, college accreditation, Dr. Cline’s discussion of the now-defunct college wide bulletin board, Aaron’s suggestion of investigating the cost-effectiveness of our current water cooler, Coach K, and Theresa’s abandonment of her initial Labor Day weekend plans.                (11.10.03)

5. T-shirts –
-     Colors will be orange and blue.
-     The font will be “Comic Sans” (not “Cosmic Sands”)
-     Cost to us: $6.50 each/Sale price: $10.00 each.
-     Quantity Ordered: 150    <-- the funny part                          (11.24.03)

- Dr. Cline, on bringing in a scholar to speak about a classic: “It would be the kind of thing that intellectual places do.”
- Dr. Lewis: “Cannibal Cheerleaders on Crack.”
- Sarah: Kidnap Bill Waterson.
- Brandon: Jack Kevorkian jailbreak.                                              (12.01.03)

(On the topic of Midnight Desserts) “We’ll behave better without Dr. Steinhauer throwing crème puffs.”                                                            (12.08.03)

IV. Common Reading: E. O. Wilson is no longer able to be the Elkin Isaac speaker as the date was changed to the 25th. No speaker has been chosen yet. Michael Jackson is not being considered.                                                                               (01.12.04)

Lisa Lewis on honors classes: “You have to do papers…. You can’t just pull them out of your….. you-know-where!”                                                         (02.02.04)

(Regarding a Euchre event) “Punch and pie…” proved to disappoint many honors students.                                                                                            (02.09.04)

“I tend not to know much about women.” ~ Ben Olbricht                (02.23.04)

These minutes have been completed
in an entirely different style at
great expense and at the last
minute by Sarah Rose.                                                      (03.01.04)

Attendance: Aaron Glenn, Brandon Hill, Theresa Vinic*, Gene Cline, Lisa Lewis, Andrew Lake*, Kara Christenson, Joseph Smith, Mike Hewitt, Lisa Leverenz, Shari Gross, Jimmy Burt, Brinn Cronin, Sarah Rose, Andrew Hasley, Dan Westerhof, Ben Olbricht stopped in to tell us he is Fred Savage.
*People who have not taken minutes.

Note: Thanks to Brandon Hill and Sarah Rose, I was forced to take minutes. It was also brought to the meeting that Theresa Vinic and Andrew Lake have not taken minutes yet and need to do so.                                                                                           (03.15.04)

Dr. Cline: "Frank Savage male dancer"                                             (03.15.04)

Theresa tells a story which goes exactly as follows: Blah blah blah blah Theresa’s car blah blah blah March blah blah blah blah breakdown blah blah….blah!            (03.22.04)

MEHA – Presentations have been planned by Kara and Jimmy. Possible future meeting to plan
    for the talent show, which this secretary foresees we won’t win, due to the arrival of a strange
    group of students who will bang on pots and perform Britney Spears’ “Oops, I Did It Again” as
    beat poetry.                                                                               (04.12.04)

Newsletter
~Currently, Brinn has only four articles.
~She hopes to have it completed by Wednesday.
~Suggestion for Article #5, written by the editor: “People on Brinn’s Sh*t List”
~Word choice alternatives: poop, soiled laundry, and risqué laundry.(04.19.04)

Renee proceeded to say a few things that WON’T go in the minutes, due to their inappropriate nature.                                                                                                  (04.26.04)

Interlude: We ate Prentiss M. Brown Pizza.                                     (08.30.04)

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