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Science Fiction Society

Science Fiction Society

2007 T-shirt design
Founded	1974
Class	Class III
Office(s)	Riley Commons Student Publications Office
2011 Officers
President	Marcus "That's a Horrible Horrible Idea" Menghini
Vice President	Sasha "T.T" Abdurazak
Treasurer	Michal "God Shampoo" Talmor
Secretary	Zachary "{Wild, Egyptian God, Magic, Punch, Credit, Identification, Pokemon};" Card
Librarian	Janell "Not even a quarter of a woman-bear" Biczak
Events Coordinator	Francesco "Pretentious Douche" Bivona
Annual Events	Gaming Weekend Laser Tag
Related Organizations	Society for Medieval Arts and Sciences Game Development Club Anime Club

The Science Fiction Society (SFS) has a self-descriptive name. They meet every Wednesday night in AK 116 at 7:12 p.m. They run many different events, including Gaming Weekend, Animefest (defunct as of 2006, may be picked up by the Anime Club), Friday Night Gaming in the Campus Center (formerly the Wedge), and random other events such as showing anime or sci-fi shows. Curiously, in recent years the SFS has focused less on science fiction itself and instead on various other geeky topics such as anime, role-playing games, card and board games, and video games.

The Science Fiction Society was founded by Steve Kovner, John Major, and John Kuklewicz in May 1974, is now in its 35th full year.

The SFS maintains an extensive library of over 3,500 science fiction and fantasy books (as well as books and magazines of other genres and, surprise, games) which is available to SFS members. In Spring '04, an outgoing SFS member donated approximately $1500 worth of comics (about 400 - 500 in all), giving the library a substantial comic book collection in addition to graphic novels. In Fall '07, an alumnus donated the necessary funds for the SFS to obtain a LibraryThing account. The library is located in the basement of Riley Hall in the location of the old Newspeak office. The Newspeak logo still adorns one wall. It has become somewhat of an unofficial tradition for the SFS to obtain space once occupied by the campus newspaper, as in early 2007 the SFS acquired a closet in the Tech News office. The anime and manga library was established through generous donations in 2008, and continues to expand.

The SFS is associated with the social group known as Wedge rats, so much so that some consider the two to be synonymous. It is also commonly confused with the Society for Medieval Arts and Sciences (SMAS); in fact, the two organizations are entirely separate despite a small member overlap.

The SFS has sponsored a yearly T-shirt design contest since 2003. Many of the winning shirt designs can be seen on the backs of SFS members around campus, as well as in the pictures to the right.

In 2005, the SFS occupied the special interest house located at 25 Trowbridge.

In the 2006-2007 year, the SFS held public viewings of Battlestar Galactica (Season 3).
In the 2007-2008 year, the SFS held public viewings of Heroes (Season 2) and intends to hold public viewings of Battlestar Galactica (Season 4).

1 Weekly Minutes
2 Current Weekly Events
3 Upcoming events
4 Anime Hut
5 Officers
6 Miscellany to be Updated Regularly on This Page
7 Notable members
8 Gallery

Weekly Minutes Edit

Main article: Science Fiction Society minutes

Each week this section will be updated with the weekly meeting minutes emailed to the sfs-announce list.

Friday Gaming will be happening this Friday in the campus center around 5-7pm ish and going until 2 am. Play board games, bring friends, rejoice!

Friday Formals Paid Yu-Gi-Oh tournament will happen this Friday at 7pm also in the campus center.

Saturday Anime this week will be in Higgins 218 at 6:30pm. The anime is Gosick, in which Sherlock Holmes is a bored school-girl from an obscure European country and Dr. Watson is a boy from Japan. Hijinx ensue. Also hair. Hair ensues.

Sunday Magic will happen at 1:00pm in the campus center, $10 Innistrad draft

Tuesday Casuals Yu-Gi-Oh free play occurs in Salisbury 011 at 7PM

Wednesday Chaos this week was replaced by Wednesday Daybreakers which promptly burst into flames at the end of the meeting.

Thursday Sushi will meet in the campus center at 9:50pm to head to the Sole Proprietor at 10pmfor $6 sushi and other tasty goods.

Hengeyokai is a World of Darkness live action role play that will be run by Greg starting the 24th of January. You play as one of the Changing Breeds, that is animals that turn into humans and vice-versa on the island of Okinawa. For more information contact gpettigrew@STEVE

Cory Lauer is polling interest in a Dresden Files campaign. No familiarity with the written/filmed works is required. contact him at cjlauer90@STEVE for more info.

ELECTIONS! Happened this Wednesday! I'm proud to introduce our new incoming officers to you: President: Michelle Talmor Vice President: Austin Noto-Moniz Treasurer: Cory Lauer Secretary: Solly

This week for your contemplation: Internet activism sort of works!<http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115322-Acknowledging-Blackout-Politicians-Ditch-SOPA>

In order to keep spambots away, we use the following aliases when referring to email addresses: STEVE=gmail.com<http://gmail.com> BOB=wpi.edu<http://wpi.edu>. Please use these aliases when you write emails that include email addresses in the body text. As a note, @BOB and @STEVE are not valid domain names, so trying to literally email "zachtwelve@BOB" will not work.

The WPI website is at users.wpi.edu/~sfs and the WPI Wiki is at wpi.wikia.com/Science_Fiction_Society. Both are updated regularly and contain tasty nuggets of club info.

Current Weekly EventsEdit

Sunday Magic
Monday Mystery Box
Tuesday Casuals: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Wednesday Stargate SG1
Thursday Babylon 5: The Card Game
Thursday Sushi
Friday Formals: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Friday Gaming
Saturday Anime

Upcoming eventsEdit

SLAW (SFS Live Action Weekend): November 19-21
D-term Gaming Weekend: March 18-20

Anime HutEdit

The "Anime Hut" is the nickname for any on-campus dorm room (usually in Founders or Stoddard) whose residents own a lot of anime. There can be multiple Anime Huts at once, and those who live in them tend to be SFS members. In 2002, for example, the Anime Hut was occupied by SFS members such as Craig Perko, '03, and Glenn ___, '02.

OfficersEdit

List of past Science Fiction Society officers

The Science Fiction Society's elected officers for the 2011 calendar year are:

President: Marcus "That's a Horrible Horrible Idea" Menghini
Vice President: Sasha "T.T" Abdurazak
Treasurer: Michal "God Shampoo" Talmor
Secretary: Zachary "{Wild, Egyptian God, Magic, Punch, Credit, Identification, Pokemon};" Card

The Science Fiction Society's appointed officers for the 2011 calendar year are:

Librarian: Janell "Not Even a Quarter of a Woman-Bear" Biczak
Events Coordinator: Francesco "Pretentious Douche" Bivona

To contact the officers with questions, concerns, or pudding, email sfs@BOB (BOB means wpi.edu)

Elections occur on the first Wednesday of C Term. The members with voting rights (a $5 fee that includes library access) then vote for a President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary. These four officers then choose from a pool of self-nominated Librarian and Events Coordinator candidates. Tradition in the SFS states that officers receive nicknames within the first three weeks of office.