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In the words of Top4... By Parisa Tabriz With another year's Engineering Open House upon us, the ACM top4 take a moment to reflect on the year's past events, current trends, and what is to come in the future of this great organization. Christy Sauper, senior in Computer Science and Secretary extraordinaire, looks back fondly on the weekly EXEC meetings and the challenging duty she had of scribing the low elocutions of ACM SIG Chairs. "It was usually impossible to hear half of the Chair's updates, so I tended to just make up my own comments and hope no one would notice." Anthony Phillip, the current Treasurer of ACM, has quickly moved up the ranks of the EXEC board, but his climb did not go unnoticed. After one ACM member questioned an apparent conflict in Anthony's position as Chair of LUG [Linux User's Group] and Treasurer and Corporate Committee founder, Anthony responded, "I joined LUG two years ago and have always been a strong proponent of the open source movement. One day though, I just realized that money and power are a lot sexier than a little penguin." Ryan Morlok, Vice Chair pinch hitter and Caffeine Admin, made his commitment to ACM apparent from the start. "I came to UIUC from Minnesota in large part because of the high ranked computer science program and UIUC's world renowned ACM organization.... just kidding, I wanted to smash that Diet Mountain Dew record on Caffeine!" And smash that record he did. Congratulations Ryan, we are all so very proud. And last and most definitely least, there is me, |
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Parisa Tabriz, your dutiful ACM Chair. I began the academic year as Vice Chair with a goal of bringing a new shade of color to ACM, namely, hot pink! While not everyone appreciated the fuchsia hues that adorned the volunteers and staff at this year's stupendous Reflections|Projections Conference, Head Admin Chris Clausen had these warm words to share with the disgruntled few regarding the change of color, "The staff shirts were AWESOME... The fact that you are not man enough to wear a pink shirt is YOUR problem." To further elevate my status in ACM and secure the position of Chair, I skillfully convinced Ari Gordon-Schlossberg, the year's initial Chair, that dropping out of school (again) to join a startup (again) was a great idea and yanked the top spot. Keenan Crane, former SIGGRAPH Chair commented, "I don't know what I feel about having a woman in charge of ACM. I can't quite place it, but I'd probably put it somewhere in between indigestion and rubella." Well Keenan, the reign of male dominance has come to an end and a new breed of ACM women have left their mark. And so, us four fools have done our best to lead the great minds of our student ACM chapter. With less than a week before another coming election, I speak for myself and on behalf of the rest of top4 and thank all the hard working, dedicated, and brilliant ACM members that helped make this year a great success. |
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