February 21, 2018

Oh hey clubber, I didn't see you there, haha!

Oh wait a minute. That's because you weren't there

Midterms have got everyone down, so I guess that means you all think there's an excuse for attendance to go down too.

Jack has an O Chem midterm in less than 24 hours. I have two midterms in less than 48 hours. Yet, Jack was there, I was there, even a surprise guest was there, and you, my dear lovely "clubber", were not.

Think on your sins.

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February 21, 2018

Agenda

• No one can think of anything, so let’s take a less structured approach to club

• Ben broke his knee, wish him well or just laugh

Officer Announcements

Andrew

• suggests a club member or faculty member spotlight on the FB page

Camila

• Pay your dues

• You’ll be on the website, and feel special and amazing

Lewis

• Is there interest in club pint glasses?

  • There is

• Ben suggests shot glasses

*** WES *** was so kind as to grace today’s meeting with his presence, can you believe it

Merch

• We’ve got a lot of big game shirts from last year

• Centennial stuff in weird sizes

• Bottle openers

• Stickers are coming

• Hats are coming

• Denims remain in larger sizes

• Merch makes great gifts I guess, if your family or significant other is into forestry as much as you pretend to be

Alegra

• Bean feed coordinator has a conflict with wednesdays

• Can we move to tuesday/thursday?

  • Reaction is mixed, a poll may be sent out

Logging sports

• Practice might be on sunday

• Stay tuned in to your email boxes

Member announcements

Kathie

• Has donuts for amanda and Jackie’s birthday

• Happy birthday to you

• Outside event: Berkeley Women in Business (?) are having a panel discussion with sustainable business leaders.  Cliff bars might be there

  • 648 Evans

  • 6:30-8:00 pm

  • Feb 27

Alegra

• Earth Team is having a tree planting

• Sat March 3

• Wanlass park, San Pablo

Hunter

• SAF shared our news article

• But only so their members could mock us

• This slight will not go unpunished

• Hunter suggests starting a comment war

Ben

• The show was great, too bad you all missed it

AUA

• Anthropology Undergraduate Association (?)

• Is having an outing to the Thai Temple

• There will be good food, including sticky rice

Reminders

Axes

• Juniors and seniors get your axes to scott for Xi Sigma Pi

Pro-track foresters

• Seniors who are SAF members and are doing the professional track get a ring

  • It’s pretty

  • Go to a jeweler and figure out your ring size

  • Or ask the internet

Jobs

• Camp TA app closes march 3

Tree of the Week

• Bunya Pine

• From Queensland Australia

• 150 ft tall

• Tubers grow from the seeds after germination, and sit around in the ground for years, maybe

• The tree then grows from that

• The cones are gigantic, weighing 40 lbs

• Bunya pine exhibit extreme apical dominance

• They aren’t real pines

• The wood has good acoustic qualities and the seeds can be eaten

• The tree is important in Aboriginal culture

• The leaves are isosceles triangles

  • Remember that an isosceles has two equal sides, b, and an unequal one, a

  • Of course, the height is found using h= sqrt(b^2 - ¼(a^2))

  • And therefore area is ½(a^2)*sqrt(b^2/a^2 - ¼)

  • Now naturally the inradius should be r= (a(sqrt(a^2 + 4h^2 - a)/4h)

  • So as everyone can guess by now, the geometric centroid is ȳ = <y>/A = 1/3 h

    • **I assumed that you would all know the simple calculation for the mean of y, but for you laggards out there it is  = <y> = int (-a/2)^a/2 ((int (0)^1 - abs[x]/(a/2)) (y^2)(d^2)x)

  • Hunter found isosceles triangles confusing, but as you can see they’re very simple.