The night began at UC student favorite bar, Mac’s Pizza Pub. Noted for their exceptional happy hour prices ($1.50 domestics, $4 pitchers, $3 well drinks), the “crew” settled in for some pre-curry drinks. A brief game of “the pitcher game”, made famous by the December holiday meeting of 2016, was played. Provisional member Cody Austin lost and quickly consumed the remaining beer.

The turnout for the CASACC meetup was underwhelming. On the morning of the meeting, we had 10 acceptances, alas, only 6 turned up. Tyson and Duane were pulled into “work stuff”, Josh had a very important PTA meeting, and Eric Eslinger and Mark Heekin straight up blew us off, and were henceforth given yellow cards. First item on the agenda was to procure the complimentary papadums, or as they are referred to in India, papads, which I was warned ahead of time was not something they normally do. When booking the reservation, instead of giving my own name, or “GE”, I reserved it under Cincinnati Curry Club, which surely played into their decision to give them for free. The papads, we generally crisp and tasty. What was odd is we needed to ask for the chutneys, plates, and utensils, despite our waiter only having 1 other table. This was an underlying theme for the night. Oh, and one of the chutneys was empty.

After receiving our papads, we were asked for our drink orders. Being the President, I jumped at the chance to set an example by ordering my favorite Indian beverage, a Kingfisher. The waiter responded by telling me that not only were they out of Kingfisher, but they were out of all/most Indian and Ethopian beers and had been for almost 3 months. I relented and ordered a Bud Light. Members Kaplan, Lukas, and Hoy all followed with orders of Yuengling. Upon returning with our drinks, Members Hoy and Kaplan received their drinks, while Member Lukas was told that those were the last two Yuenglings and that he’d have to order something else. Later in the evening, after finishing his Yuengling, a confused and dismayed Member Hoy asked the most appropriate question to the waiter, “What beers DO you have?”.

After receiving our drinks, we toasted Alan Patten. Red and yellow cards were distributed. The matter of disciplining perpetually truant members took center stage next. Rob Kuschel was officially booted from the club, with a belief that this had already been done. Matt Cable and Eric Eslinger have been given a conditional stay of execution, fully pardonable if the send an email to the group’s distribution list:

1. Acknowledging they read this week’s report.
2. Asking for forgiveness and providing excuses.
3. Promising to attend next month’s meeting.

Mark Heekin missed his 4^th consecutive meeting, but was granted a 1-month extension. Which left us with what to do with Josh Falter. Josh has missed 5 consecutive meetings. Josh had accepted, but at the last minute, wrote an email explaining his absence. He also asked to be inducted into the controversial “Kadai of Honor”, created in haste at last month’s meeting. When discussing whether or not Josh should be inducted, Member Hoy questioned the constitutionality of the “Kadai of Honor”.  After a review of the constitution, this president hereby declares the “Kadai of Honor” unconstitutional given an amendment must be voted on at a meeting where at least 50% of the club is present (article 65). That being said, both Josh and Justin Henderson are welcome to return to the club if they attend November’s meeting, beer (or other bribe) in hand.

Overall, the food was mediocre and the service was awful. We continually had to ask for basic things required to eat a meal. The general consensus was the food was good, but lacked appropriate spice. Middling scores all around.

Before concluding the meeting, we returned to a time honored tradition of using bubble gum to secretly vote on provisional member Cody Austin. In a vote of 4-1, Cody was approved for membership.

JJ will be November’s President.