Regent's Report
June 1997
Kevin Langdon
Changes in Officer Positions
John Kormes has resigned as Legal Officer. We are now seeking a volunteer for this position. Qualified candidates should contact me. Greg Grove has resigned as Chairman of the Psychometrics Committee. The new Chairman is Julia Cybele Cachia.
Motion Carried
* (1) $75 is appropriated for repairs on the TNS Membership Officer computer, if necessary. Passed 8-1; Jennifer Foster voted ``no.''
Motions Defeated
* (2) Whenever there is a ``single issue'' of Vidya, the Editor shall cause to be printed an extra 200 copies. Sample copies of Vidya shall be mailed to former members of the Triple Nine Society, to members of other societies with cutoffs at or above the 99.9th percentile, and to persons known to have made qualifying scores on tests accepted for admission to TNS. This shall continue until 600 people known to fall into these categories have received a sample copy of Vidya. Yes, 3 (Adams, Kopp, Ogg); No, 5 (Cooper, Foster, Langdon, Lansberry, White); Jess abstained.
* (3) A display ad for the Triple Nine Society shall be placed in the Mensa Bulletin on a one-time, experimental basis. Yes, 4 (Adams, Kopp, Langdon, Ogg); No, 5 (Cooper, Foster, Jess, Lansberry, White).
Motion Withdrawn: Admission of Minors Who Are ISPE Members
* (4) Applicants over 18 furnishing proof of membership in the ISPE shall be accepted into the Triple Nine Society without providing additional evidence of qualification for membership.
This motion would have qualified an earlier motion waiving further testing for ISPE members to apply only to applicants over 18. I withdrew this motion because it has been the policy of the ISPE for the past several years not to accept children as members (source: Col. Hugh White, ISPE Director of Admissions).
Motions Out of Order
Two motions, by John Cooper and Jennifer Foster that would have restricted the space allocated to material by any member, including officers of the society, to two pages or one, respectively, in any one issue of Vidya, were contained in the May 1 ExCom Memo. These motions conflict with Article II, Section 2 of the TNS Constitution, which reads:
The Editor shall publish a monthly journal for the Society, including therein all official announcements of the Society and such additional material from members and other sources as he may deem appropriate, and shall be responsible for the printing and mailing of copies to all current members and subscibers. He shall inform the Executive Committee of any circumstances that may require the temporary suspension of publication and shall indicate the probable duration of such suspension.
Therefore, I have ruled both of these motions out of order.
The two ``motions'' contained in John Kormes letter on page 32 of Vidya #163/164 are also out of order; see my reply to Mr. Kormes in Vidya #165/166 (p. 27).