The first SWILNEWS in a month, 3/28/91

     How much is happening is SWIL right now? So much that the mice
are..., wait nevermind. Still a whole lot of stuff is happening
Real Soon. In the deadline department, BEM needs you! Submit
stories, poems, artwork, even the kitchen sink. (Well, maybe not
the sink unless you've got alien life forms growing in it.) The
deadline is April 1st, but it may be extended somewhat if there
isn't enough material. But don't take that chance. Submit now! Also
with a deadline of April 1st is the t-shirt orders. If you haven't
signed up for one of the elegent pieces of attire, talk to Nao. The
slogan is "In the SWIL of the night."

     Samuel Delany is coming! Soon! As in just over one week, on
the weekend of April 6th and 7th. See the Weekly News and the signs
that will go up next week for exact details of when and where he
will be speaking. He will be giving several talks and a reading
over the course of the weekend. I strongly urge everyone to go to
as many of these as possible.

     The weekend after that is Parents' Weekend and we know what
that means. Live Chess will happen at 2:30, either on Parrish lawn
or in Parrish Commons if the weather is as foul as it usually is.
We still need players (who can take any position they want) and
people to fill out the ranks. Talk to Josh Smith if interested.
Then the next weekend is the Steeleye Span/Bobs concert which has
become the Fairport Convention/Bobs concert. Then on April 26th is
the spring Pterodactyl Hunt. We need monsters galore, so if you
want to whomp a whole bunch of players, sign up with Stephen
Sample.

     Other things. The schlock film fest is coming up soon. We'll
decide what movies to show in a couple weeks, so get ideas ready.
If we have refreshments budget left after Delany's appearence here
we may have a post-Walpurgishnacht story reading around May 3rd.
(Hmm, after the early showing of Princess Bride perhaps.) The
meeting on May 11th has been moved to room 5, across the lobby from
our usual room. If there are books you'd like to see in Birdwainer,
tell Stephen Sample.

Book review:
Treason by Orson Scott Card. Some books suffer from Deus ex
Machina, This book suffers from Dei ex Machina. (i.e. on more than
one score.) The main character winds up just happening to be the
best ever seen at a ridiculously wide range of obscure skills
picked up all over the place, and these skills just happen to be
very handy. Although he extensively rewrote it for this re-release,
the fact that this is one of Card's earliest novels shows very
clearly. Stay away.

Attendance from 3/2/91:
Deb "SMOJ" Holtzman, jere7my "Don't mess with the Bard" tho?rpe,
Helene "Three arms no throat" Muller-Landau [Hmm, someone's bio lab
go wrong? -SMOS], Jim "to figure out" Moskowitz, Joel "Sermon on
the Mutt" [Ah, a dog-matic religion I see.], Aaron "I have _no_
intentions..." Brockett, Peter "I have _every_ intention (smirk)"
Wagner [showing the proper spring spirit I see], Josh "gibber,
gibber, gibber" Smith, Andy "It's better to be a live dog than a
dead lion" Perry, Fran "BEM has been an annual magazine for the
last year now" Altvater, Luke "Party in the Sanitorium!" Hankins
[Ah midterm time.], Maeghan "Interesting to be a married groom"
Maloney, Chris "I have a yellow wife, Jere7my has a green one,
Susannah has a blue husband" Hogendorn, Susannah "Good dog, gooboy,
waggie tail and run, CAUSE WE'RE PUTTING YOU TO SLEEP AT THREE O'
THE CLOCK, NIGEL" Hauze [What's the deal with all the dog
comments?], Stephen "I've got my SWILshirt on"  Sample, Nao "I have
a different pen" Parkhurst, Deb "I'm a lemming" Barolsky,
Scatterbrained Master of SWILdom

Attendance from 3/23/91:
Nao "Hyper-dimensional hammer - YAAH!" Parkhurst, Stephen and Roo
"Here I come to save the day!" Sample, Peter "Where did my charms
go!" Wagner, Deb "SMOSMOS" Holtzman [Repetive recursion?], Susannah
"The alphabetizer" Hauze, Fran "SUBMIT NOW or I'll be forced to do
something horrible" Altvater [This sounds like fun.], Jacob "I was
reading science fiction on the train and everyone kept looking at
me" Mattison, Josh "Swap Sectors? Aaaagh!" Smith [You're repeating
yourself!], Bruce "creating his very own teenagers!" Hahne
[Skipping the first twelve years? Quite a trick.], Laura "I don't
have a four" A., Melissa "Madam Speaker, Great and Wonderful God"
Shaner, Chris "This doesn't seem like the folk festival" Hogendorn
[They're over on the other side], Joshua "How very unusual" Mackay-
Smith, Joel "Don't even think of talking to me", jere7my "W is for
Wookie" tho?rpe [the Star Wars alphabet?], Peter "W is also for
WET!!" (slightly dripping) Wong, Springtime Master of SWILdom