Date: Thu, 30 Jan 92 14:07:28 -0500
  Subject: SWILnews the Diet Coke with lemon generation

Jere7my says we should introduce ourselves. (One two three...)
JMeerleis7smay!

On the night of January the 24th nineteen hundred and ninety two, after 
a rousing game of hide and seek for one presidential hopeful and a 
contra dance for the other, Melissa Shaner and jere7my tho?rpe were 
crowned (respectively) King Discipline and Queen Bondage of SWIL. Jeff 
Hildebrand thus became SMOS, Superannuated Master of SWIL. Hah.

Our reign of terror began with appropriate gore as we dismembered Kathy 
Davis and Justin Giacoletti. Little did they realize that Jeff's 
immaculate record-keeping meant that we would know, despite vacation, 
despite even the changing of the guard in the ol' SWIL hierarchy, that 
they had attended their third meeting. They're all torn up about it. 
(Bah-doom crash. --B)

Beth Bruch was proclaimed treasurer to much rejoicing and more 
snickering. Yay Beth. *snicker* (You owe me $2.55, Beth. --D) Everyone 
else is in charge of what they were last year. (Except ME! 
HAhahahahahahaaah! No more money to worry about! Wait a minute... --B) 
(I don't remember you ever having money about which to worry (about))
--D)

In real news, the St.Valentine's Day Massacree will be occurring on St. 
Patrick's Day, February 14th. Or something. (Must have tied the leather 
thongs too tightly around the neck, there, Bondage...--D) This is 
Friday. No, not tomorrow, not next Friday, but the one shortly _after_ 
that. (And if you order now, we'll also include this smokeless ashtray 
--D) So we have

VICTRONS	THUGTRONS	and WAITRONS
____________________________________________________________ 
Jere7my Josh Smith	Andrea
Kendra	Robert	Josh Burdick
Deb	David Auer
Geoff	Dan
Daver	Beth
Jen	Leif
Pwong	Pwagner
Melissa

Peter Wagner is in charge of arming and clothing Thugtrons. Thugtrons 
contact him. I (D) will send email to the rest of you telling you what 
to do. Trust me. >; ) ("Trust me" says Discipline. Heh. --B)

SUBMIT TO BEM! Deadline is 4 April . Tell your friends. Tell your 
family. Shut up and start writing. Alumni submissions, as always, are 
the staple of our - um, are welcome, volume permitting.

REVIEW by Jeff Hildebrand

_The Ghost From the Grand Banks_ by Arthur C. Clarke. This book 
contains quite a few interesting ideas and the usual easy familiarity 
with technology that that has marked Clarke's work throughout his 
career. And like a lot of his work, the characterization is rather 
weak. That leaves the plot to carry the day, and it does for about 240 
pages. However in the final 15 pages it doesn't feel like it's 
resolved. Instead it stops as if Clarke got bored with the idea and 
decided to end it quickly. It was fun while reading, but in the end, 
unsatisfying.

ATTENDANCE for 25 January 1992
Jeff "Hey, my executive fiat's gone! Here fiat. Here fiat." Hildebrand, 
Dan "My short hair is on top!" Levi, Kendra "Joy Joy Joy" Eshleman, 
David "Ecstasy ecstasy ecstasy" Auer, Robert "Ecstasy means you're no 
longer standing up" Richardson, Andrea "My roommate is a drip. 
Literally." Hall, Neil "ha ha ha Physics 7 is cool this year ha ha ha" 
Banas (Oh, yeah, just because you don't have Kleppner and Kolenkow you 
think you're so hot, Mr. Smarty-Pants, well, well, I--Grrr. --B) (I, on 
the other hand, thoroughly enjoyed the Shakespeare seminar. --D) (Hmph. 
--B), Jackson "Listen you science-fiction-oriented worms. Thomas Hart 
Benton was a friend of mine and by exorcising him you have damned him 
to an eternity in purgatory as a lost soul. Damn you all! I spit on 
your graves! The American modern movement in painting shall have its 
revenge!" Pollock (Hm. Uh-oh... --B) (Does this mean he's going to 
sneak up on us and throw paint at our heads? --D), Geoff "ha ha ha 
Physics 7...--are the ha's reflecting sarcasm? Not sure a course as 
hard as this one will be cool but oh well..." (HARD? _HARD_!!?!! You, 
you, you--ARGH! --B) (Although I must admit that the Modern Dramaturgy 
seminar may prove disappointing. --D), Josh "Subversive/Aura" Smith, 
Josh "drunken Frisbee party" Burdick, ANDY "EX-EX-CO-PRESIDENT" PERRY, 
Charles "Honest. Let me in, I do this _every_ week" Deily, Peter "Trays 
falling like dominoes" Wong, Deb "I got my ear back!" Sam, Jen "Gee, do 
I still get to kick Jeremy now that he's Bondage?" Setlow (only if you 
learn to spell my name right. --B), Sherry "Slow Birds" Levi, Charles 
"Full Contact Triple Jump" Danforth, Eric "Sure you do, Jen." Nute (He 
got better! --B), D a n " I c a u s e d t h e t r a y c a l a m i t y " 
W e l l s, Dave "That's not inquiry, that's solipsism" Szent-Gyorgyi 
'83, David "Little Fuzzy Seminars" Randall (pas de sympathy here, bucko 
--D), Beth "See Neil/Desperately seeking a cloister" Bruch, Annie "How 
_DID_ the calculator prove sentience?" Fox, Marc "Have you seen Paris 
Opera?" Chagall, Kathy "That was messy" Davis, Justin NORMAL Giacoletti 
(not for long, monkey-boy... --B)

- Bon7dage and Discipline

(emptor)