I-CON
In the Fall of 1981 the Forum moved up from being a Line Budget club (with a maximum of $500 available in Polity funding) to being a Program club (Max. $3000). Long after the disasters of Brookcon and Mudcon, and the forumites who ran them had graduated, there again arose the thought of holding a SF convention on Campus. Strangely enough, the current forumites learned from the mistakes of the past and worked with two other Program clubs: COCA (the Committee on Cinemagraphic Arts) and SAB (Student Activity Board) speakers. The three Polity clubs joined forces and budgets to bring Gene Roddenberry to speak on campus in a convention setting, with COCA providing the contacts, SAB the guest booking and the Forum the staffing and the operational organization of a con. Given the location on Long Island our event was named I-CON.
(the following paragraph merged in from the separate "I-Con" entry) I-Con is a yearly Science Fiction convention that traditionaly takes place over the April Fool's weekend on the campus of SUNY Stony Brook. It was started in 1982 by combining the financial resources of three student groups: COCA (the Committee on Cinemagraphic Arts), SAB Speakers (the Student Activity Board), and the Science Fiction Forum. I-con's first Guest of Honor was Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek.