On Saturday September 6th at 6 pm, the ACM will be at Crossroads Bowling Center on Dowlen for Bowling Night. Please join us!!

The cost for 2 games will be about $12 including shoes, and for 1 game it will be about $7.

Please e-mail acmlamar@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Look at the meeting minutes for the address.

The first and only LAN party of the semester will be November 21st. We invite you to come game with us on PC or console, or just hang out and watch anime. Bring some of your friends with you too!

It will be held in the Maes building on the Lamar University campus from 6pm until everyone passes out.

It is totally FREE to come and play games. There will be plenty of games to download from other people's computers. Bring your PC and play some Call of Duty with us or just show up to play the console games like Smash Bros. and Halo.

Also, for just $10 you can have Pizza and Drinks available all night.

This time we are also coordinating with JECC (Japanese Entertainment and Culture Club) and will have a section devoted to watching anime on a big screen with Japanese snacks to accompany the entertainment.

I have attached a copy of the LAN party flier. Feel free to print out a copy to post on the wall or give to your friends.

Update: The Beaumont Enterprise wrote an article about our accomplishment.

This year our teams did very well at the ACM Regional Programming Contest. The Birds of Prey team placed 19th out of 68 teams and the Cardinals team placed 55th out of 68 teams.

Lamar University was represented by the following teams:

1. Undergraduate students team: 'Birds of Prey'
   • James Carnley
   • Ricky Guidry
   • Jacob Wallace
2. Graduate students team: 'Cardinals'
   • Ran Qi
   • Suman Rajbhandari
   • Vishal Patel
3. Coach: Dr. Stefan Andrei

Official Results of the 2008 ACM Regional competition:

1. 2008 ACM South Central USA Regional Programming Contest Scoreboard Summary
   
2. 2008 ACM South Central USA Regional Programming Contest Scoreboard for Texas Teams
   
3. 2008 ACM South Central USA Regional Programming Contest Scoreboard for Teams participating at LSU site
   
4. 2008 ACM South Central USA Regional Programming Contest Scoreboard Finals

We have also uploaded pictures from the event into the "2008 Programming Contest" folder of the image gallery.

Here are some images of our trip:

Our teams ready to depart Lamar.

The undergraduate team Birds of Prey.

The graduate team Cardinals.

Our teams taking a tour of LSU and posing near the statue of the LSU Tiger mascot.

Yes, LSU has a real live Tiger as their mascot. Where is our cardinal?!

Our teams standing for a photo with Issac Traxler after the contest. Issac has taken teams to the world finals and has run the regional competition for many years. He was also the man who convinced the Internal ACM to ditch Windows for Linux for the contest. Bravo!

We had a great time and put forth a lot of effort. We hope next year will be even better!

Check out the minutes for this month in the forums.

Since Club Fletch is still closed from the hurricane, we will not be having Laser Tag on the 25th. If you have any ideas about doing stuff that weekend, let us know.

Because of the hurricane, all September events have been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later time.

The Programming Contest has been rescheduled for Tuesday, September 30th at 5pm.

Welcome back to school everyone! We are kicking off the semester with a bang.

Membership Drive - FREE pizza, Thursday the 4th, 12-1, Maes Commons
Programming Contest - Thursday the 4th, 4-7, Maes 211
Monthly Meeting - Friday the 5th, 3-4, Maes 111
Game Night - Friday the 12th, 6-12, Maes Commons
Comedy Movie Night - Friday the 19th, 6-1, Maes 111
LAN Party - Friday the 26th, 6pm-6am, Maes Commons

Visit the Activites Page for more details.

Here are the results for the ACM elections:

Offices:

President - Crystal Wettingfeld
Vice-President - Ric Guidry
Secretary - Rafael Romero
Treasurer - Iris Beltran
SGA Representative - Valerie Juarez

Chairs and Positions

Webmaster - James Carnley
Fundraising Chair - Kelli Hall
Activities Chair - Valerie Juarez

ACM Annual Officer Elections

Friday, April 18th 2008

**All officer positions are open to any undergraduate or graduate students, who must be an ACM Member, with a GPA of at least 2.5. **

"Enthusiasm and dedication are the fundamental qualifications for both the student officers and sponsor. In addition, each officer must be a student member in good standing of the ACM." ---ACM Student Chapter Manual

Officer Positions and Descriptions:

The following is a list of descriptions of each officer's responsibilities and the current officer. These officer descriptions are based on those from the ACM Student Chapter Manual that can be found at the National ACM Website.

• President: Crystal Wettingfeld - Responsible for all chapter activities. This person normally presides at all meetings of the chapter, and represents the chapter to the Association. First in the chain of command, presides over, and appoints all committees of the chapter.  Is also responsible for working with the Computer Science Department for arrangements for the Annual Spring Banquet.  (i.e.  arranging for speaker, organizing and delegating tasks in planning the banquet, etc.)
  
• Vice-President: James Carnley - Assumes the duties of the President in the event of the chair's absence, and fulfills those duties assigned by the President. Typically, the Vice President is chair of all chapter committees, which is responsible for arranging weekly activities, fundraisers, and other related functions for the chapter.
• Secretary: Raul Picon - Keeps the minutes of all chapter meetings; prepares the annual chapter activity report, which is presented to the chapter at the end of the program year--normally, at the meeting when newly elected officers formally assume their posts; and prepares reports to be sent to ACM headquarters as required. The secretary must also notify ACM Headquarters of changes in officers or sponsor of the chapter. Likewise, the secretary must send official notification to the ACM Chapter Coordinator of any proposed changes in the chapter's bylaws for approval, prior to their distribution to the membership.
  
• Treasurer: Iris Beltran - The responsibilities of the treasurer include collecting dues and maintaining the financial and membership records of the chapter. The treasurer must also file the annual report of the chapter's finances required by the Treasurer of ACM.
• SGA Representative: Valerie Juarez - Represents the Lamar ACM Chapter at all SGA Meetings and is our liaison with the Lamar University Student Government Assoc. Ability to attend all SGA Meetings is required, and must report back to the chapter and its officers to allow the chapter to be involved and aware of the ongoings and events at the University. If the SGA Representative is unable to attend a meeting, he/she must find a replacement, whether it be an officer, committee chair or ACM member to take their place at the SGA Meeting with at least 24 hours notice.

Introductory Committee Chairs:

• Fundraising Chair: Responsible for the organization, planning, and implementations of fundraisers for the organization. Must have a minimum of one fundraiser per month in each semester. Appoints tasks required for fundraisers, set up volunteer schedules, obtaining the right documentations and requirements for each fundraiser, such as reservations at the Setzer Center, dealing with the Health Department if selling food, etc.
  
• Activities Chair: Responsible for organizing weekly activities [Game Night, Movie Night, Field Trips, etc.]. Lamar ACM Activities are normally held once every week, during the weekend, unless other circumstances prohibit so, during the course of the Fall and Spring semesters. The Activities Chair will deal out tasks to committee members and volunteers as needed, and is responsible for obtaining the right permissions prior to the activity.

Current Candidates:

The following list is that of the candidates currently running or nominated for an Officer/Committee Chair Position. These persons will not be appointed for these positions until elected on Friday, April 18th for the term of Fall 2008-Spring 2009.

• President - Crystal Wettingfeld
• Vice-President
  
• Secretary - Ric Guidry
  
• Treasurer - Iris Beltran
• SGA Representative - Valerie Juarez
• Fundraising Chair
• Activities Chair
  

If you would like to nominate yourself or one of your fellow classmates for any of the above positions, please send an email to acmlamar@gmail.com. All nominations will remain anonymous, and each nominee will be notified of their nomination, of which they are able to accept of decline.

• What is the the song that is a collab between UNKLE and Radiohead's lead singer is worth getting hit by a car for?
• What anime title is translated from "Goodbye, Mr. Despair"?
• What is the name of the rap/opera fusion song from Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann?
• What is the 48th top-selling DVD of 2007 in the US?
• What's the fifth word of the first chapter of "The Awakening"?
• What author was born in Portland, Maine in 1947?
• A car traveling 100mph would take how long to reach the nearest star?
• How many centimeters are in 1122 inches?
• What is the common name of the closest star to Earth?
• What is the original airdate of the last episode, of season 4 of "Futurama?"
• What comic character was born at mama Leoni's restaurant?
• About how big is the size of the egg of the Flightless Kiwi?
• Which familiar attraction set up in 1955, Anaheim?

Submit answers to crystal.wettingfeld@gmail.com

Computer Science Day

Friday, April 11th 2008

Events start at 10 am - 5 pm, and all Computer Science classes are cancelled for the day!

• Computer Building Competition - Maes Commons Area - 10a - 11a - How fast can you build a computer CPU? Come challenge last year's champion, Raul Picon!
• Google Word Hunt - Maes Lab 215 - 11a - 12p - Use your Google Search skills and compete against your fellow classmates to win the prize!
• Clues! - Maes Upstairs - 12p - 1p - Think you're better at finding clues than Sherlock Holmes? Come show us your sleuth skills at our new game, "Clues!" Where you are required to find a series of clues leading to a hidden prize; but be careful, some of those clues could be tricky!
• Pizza and a Movie - Maes Room 111 - 1p - 3p - This year's featured film is, Live Free or Die Hard, with Bruce Willis. "When a criminal plot is in place to take down the entire computer and technological structure that supports the economy of the United States, it's up to Jown McClane to take down the conspiracy, aided by a young hacker."
• Programming Contest - Maes Lab 215 - 3p - 5p - Try your programming skills against fellow computer scientists in this programming contest!

Prizes available for all competitions! So come out and join us! It's gonna be tons of fun! =)