The next meeting will be held at 11:00:00 am in the Science building computer lab.

Hi gals & guys,

Who:
This is a notice and reminder to all chem club members that last Friday we made a few decisions that have not yet been announced.

What:
Mostly regarding a trip to New Orleans for the National ACS meeting.

Where and when:
We are meeting Friday the 14th at 11:00 in SI 124C (MAC computer lab), which is reserved from 11am-12:15pm. We’ll probably be there longer as it seems there is a bit to do, and since nobody makes time during the semester we should try an get as much done before we go our separate ways during break.

Why (the goods):
What goods?! MONEY!!! We need to fill out the paper work to receive funds from the school to help the financial burden of going to this meeting. There are five essays involved, and it would be nice to have five writers and five editors in order to streamline things. I am not an officer, but I’d bet they might agree that this would be an IMPORTANT place to make a presence if you are interested in going to New Orleans. While there on Friday, I believe, we are going to also attempt to:

1. Save hotel rooms in New Orleans.
2. Salvage any possible work ideas at Chemvention inorder to present one as a demo in New
Orleans.
3. Talk about the poster project for New Orleans.
4. Do a brief presentation on the web site in an attempt to try and get members to
understand how to use it, as to allow us to have a single location to communicate, store,
and organize our information. We will also be giving user names and passwords for those
of you who wish to participate, and we can reissue forgotten ones for those of you who have
done such. (you know who you are!)

Opinions:
Some of you might be asking, “why do I care about a National ACS meeting? Poster? Demo projects? Sounds like extra work for no grade!” I’ve done my own questioning, and the results are that there are representatives and students from practically every major school affiliated with ACS, so there ARE a lot of palms to grease and people to meet, and if you’re interested in going to a graduate program this would be a great opportunity to talk to a lot of representatives all in one place. Van, last years Secretary to the Chem Club, has filed information regarding this event that might help us accomplish our goals easier. He also added that this is a more than worth wild event to attend to, and continued by expressing that the post event especially was good practice in skills that are not often required of you by being a student. Van mentioned that many graduate students are showing off there work via a poster, and that these posters are often studies, cases, findings of things yet to be published in a peer review journal, so they are cutting edge. Wouldn’t it be nice to get your fingers wet before the big game, and experience some of these skills?

A note to the Officers:
Most importantly itt would be nice to scrounge up some green backs to buy some pizzas (

Happy crammings,
BOFH

Upset your Prof’s didn’t leave you with enough studies to keep you busy this week? Well, here’s you chemistry answer! Good luck

Chemoku #18

Instructions:

The following nine chemical elements appear nine times each in the grid above:

Br C Cl F I N O S Se

Hint: the center row has the top nine elements by electronegativity, in order by electronegativity. (We’ve tried to arrange the grid so you CANNOT solve it without figuring out that order!)