SWIL, founded in 1978, is nominally the science fiction and fantasy
club at Swarthmore College.
It is eccentric, entropic, and
infinitely interpretable.
Participants in SWIL (called non-members, for complicated, but quite explicable reasons) meet every Saturday at high noon in Sharples room 4 to plan for the next week and reaffirm our existence. Like other cults, we also engage in ritual activities such as story reading, round singing, attending science fiction conventions and renaissance faires, and presenting weekly movies. Our most famous event is the Pterodactyl Hunt, an all-campus roleplaying event whose objective is to exterminate the last of the venomous pterodactyls. We also publish a literary magazine called BEM: Bug-Eyed Magazine.
