Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:26:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Chaos Golubitsky To: _swat.org.swil @ swarthmore.edu Subject: 3# sweNLIWS ni delaeveR erA srewsnA ehT As promised a while ago, here are the answers to SWILNews #2. 1) The klaxon sounds, and they all fall down. You may not know it, but there is a very large see-saw on the Swarthmore campus. One day, a whole bunch of people were on the see-saw, because a whole bunch of people can *fit* on the see-saw, and therefore this is fun. It just so happened that all the people on one end of the see-saw were firefighters, so when the klaxon sounded and the firefighters rushed off to save Parrish, everyone on the other end of the see-saw fell down. Wasn't that obvious? (by the way, we're lying through our teeth. -c) Cloak has been averaging five hours of sleep a night and doesn't know whose meeting she's running. Introductions were made by process of elimination. Most of us are not Rebecca. SWILBusiness 2) Someone dies, and an event is held. There was a dramatic duel to the death (where dramatic is defined as "nonexistant" -d) between Lindsay and Sarah for the right to organize SWILoween. (people are killing each other over the right to organize events? when did this happen? -d) Sarah won, so we will have SWILoween. SWILoween will take place on Friday, October 29. We took an unnecessary SWILvote about this. Mafia will not start until the people going to see the Flying Karamazov Brothers get there. 3) SWILfolk are in Tarble at 2am. What happened? If you don't know by now, you might be in trouble. This would be called the "SWIL kegger" (i just love typing those words. -d) and it would be taking place Friday night in Tarble, with an outer-space theme and lots of 80s music. You should come. (this already happened. if you want to find out how it went, read the next swilnews. when we write it. this will happen. really... -c) The SWIL movie was "Bedknobs and Broomsticks." SWILMeeting next week will not be on the 50-yard line. It will instead be in ML Lounge. 4) Everyone is giving Kira money for services rendered. Unfortunately, it's not as interesting as it sounds. (unless there's something kira's not telling us... -d) People are giving Kira money to pay for PhilCon registration, with which she is dealing. Non-SWILBusiness Bryn Mawr is showing "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" on Saturday, October 30. Abby is advertising for a new Megan. There was a roundsing with Sol Weber. Chaos taped it. 5) It's a name! It's a play! It's... Arcadia, both the newly-proven sentient non-member and the Tom Stoppard play being directed by Catherine Osborne '01 this semester. The play goes up November 12 and 13 (Friday and Saturday) on PAC mainstage, and it will be really really cool and our cast is great, so you all should come. (gee, can we tell which co-president is typing this? not the one who's the stage manager, oh no! -d, enjoying the power of typing for once) People should join SWAPA. Next collation is the second Saturday of break. Crum cleanup went well, including a thing your aunt gave you and you don't know what it is. (we don't have to make sense. we just type the stuff. -c) It was the frame (and door) of a porta-john. (no, not john finkbiner. -d) 6) Romeo and Juliet are dead on the floor in a pool of water. What happened? During a production of the well-known play by William Shakespeare, there was an unfortunate incident involving a wading pool up on the grid. Anna had been using the wading pool in an attempt to teach her cockatiel Peggy how to swim. The bird became enraged and overturned the wading pool, drenching the set and killing Romeo and Juliet instantly. We want no context. (and that's exactly what you're going to get. -c) Josh will be a Ph.D. candidate. Yay, Josh! We voted on what color to make the sky. Abby suggested lavendar with orange polka dots, and Josh threatened to filibuster. We settled on McFarland tartan. Jim used a Canadian penny as an opposition token. 7) Do you want to buy a duck? Yes. the attendance list of monotonically decreasing expectations about food (and index cards) - 18/9: Sarah "See, I can write" Bergstrom Josh "flavorful strawberry-and-margarine sandwich" Burdick Jim "If the winners write the textbooks, why aren't they called the x-, y-, and z-allies?" Moskowitz Ben "I SWAPAed all night and boy is my thumb tired" Newman benjamin 'if i don't get into the tub to water my plants right now, my lab group will kill me.' george Andrew "Physics is more chillin about liquid N2" Szafran SARAH "Nary a Collywobble" DRESCHER Liane "You Are Someone Special" Rice Rebecca "please, I need another name" Kuipers Elliot "See? I'm an e!" Reed Amy "have you ever dreamt about archangels" Swift John "Mr. Magic" Finkbiner Rebecca "the First Rebecca" Paul Rebecca "2 * The first Rebecca" Jones Robert "R has been our integral domain since time immemorial. R for the real numbers!" McFarland Abigail "Painful medical procedures" Friedman Kara "Prime's tape recorder" Zor-El Hannah "my reserve binder isn't as cute as guys in garb" Schneider Anna "Supposedly someone made up a quote for me, but they didn't tell me what it was..." Hess -Cloak and Dagger