Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 00:29:40 -0400 Subject: Bathing in the afterglow of SWILnews #9 Due to periods of utter discombobulation in the universe at large, (not to mention the Internet outage) this SWILnews has been trapped in the outer reaches of either the Crab Nebula or Charles' sock drawer for the past week while its authors were simultaneously transported into the twin limboes of housing uncertainty and Acting III production week. We are sorry for the delay and give full responsiblility for any heinous consequences to Charles' amazing socks. The weekend began swimmingly on Friday with the descent of the hordes of extinction upon Sharples 3. These thirty or so folks helped us set a record for room capacity violations at Saturday's meeting. I think we'll live up to our T-shirt slogan. Literature decided to get a count and asked all current members to stand up. A great rumbling and scraping of chairs was heard outside the door. Embarrased by her semantic gaffe, she tried to hide under the table only to find that eight people were already sitting there. Jim Moskowitz asked for all current and former co-presidents to stand up and the number was impressive. Two dismemberments occurred during the meeting; dinosaur offspring Jazz and Justin were cut down in the prime of their budding youth. Executive Rule #4 (good old Excecutive Rule #4) was invoked for this procedure, therefore we must all hold our breaths and hope that they do in fact become sentient at maturity. This inspired another good T-shirt idea: SWIL -We dismember babies. The SWIL budget did, in fact, go through, and is as follows: Publishing (BEM) -$360.00, Publicity -$15.00, Non-Integral [real number -L] Transportation- $30.00, Hunt Supplies $70.00, Books- $40.00 (we can appeal for more later) Videos -$60.00, Schlock Film Fest $ 300.00, Speakers- nada. (they want us to try Forum for Free Speech again) Send comments here or to Larry Miller. Nao Parkhurst mentioned that a new curator is needed for the Cordwainer Bird Library and the George C. Hurliman Memorial Library Memorial Library as Stephen Sample is graduating. Interested candidates should talk to Stephen Sample about responsibilites before the end of the semester. Stephen has been sighted drawing the BEM cover, so look out for it in a few weeks, y'all. Live Chess was set to run on Parents' Weekend with the much appreciated help of Larry and Besh. Don asked all current non-members to give him a dollar. An enterprising dinosaur then asked all alumni to give him five dollars. This is probably why SWIL doesn't sponsor auctions. Upon further probing, it was revealed that most current non-members still owe Don a dollar for the movie fund and should pay up as soon as possible. Seeing as how Star Wars and Ghostbusters are being shown this weekend (the weekend of the 15th) on Parrish Beach we may have to rethink our screening list. There was much support for the Terry Gilliam festival and that will probably happen next Monday or the Monday after, depending on when we can contact the space people. (eerie music cue) Charles is still working on Tedddddd in regard to our access to George. *sigh* Reunion shirts did not show up in time for the reunion but are here now. They will cost $10.00 and will be mailed to alumni who have already ordered and to anyone else who wants one. We will try to pay the T-shirt place out of the Swilfund and collect money later. For regular shirts we need MONEY UP FRONT NOW. (by this coming Saturday's meeting) Give us $10.00, if the shirts turn out to be cheaper we'll refund the extra. This should hopefully save time and angst. Non-SWIl business and SWIL business kind of ran together during the reunion, but highlights of the weekend included storyreading in Sharples 3, various rounds of the name game during which the names of various Mexican presidential candidates were frantically learned [thanks a lot Peter! -L], Magic fests, a dinner with most of the Dinosaurs, round singing, Weird Al singalongs, frisbee golf, Vampire, _The Colored Museum_ , patio dancing, Star Trek in jere7my's room, general mellowness while getting to know people and many pleasant hours of watching green gook drip through a glass cylinder. All in all, it was quite pleasant having everyone here and plans are already afoot for future gatherings. Picture and annual "SWILcon" or in three years, "SWIL: 18 years- now we can vote" or when we all lose our youthful idealism :) "The Big SWIL". On that note... Attendance: 4-1-94 [we are not happy with this! -TG] Michael "I'm not a dinosaur because I don't have facial hair" Brus, Kristin "I'm not a dinosaur either" Walker, Colin "and he thought 'red'" Schatz, Jeremy "Wahahahahahaha!" (not dinosaur) Dilatush, Steve "I'm not a dinosaur because there are active students who knew me as a student- besides, I've successfully reproduced" Karpf, Elizabeth "Someone explain this dominatrix thing please" Christian, Ellisaurus Moretonensis- a dinosaur & _proud_, Justin Giacoletti, Kathy "Yay. Orange Juice. Yum." Davis, Sophia "Still a member" Sarafova, Jim Moskowitz the Untitled, David "Umm... umm... I hate the pressure..." Van Stone, Kathy Van Stone (not up for quotes...), Andrea "Either my day started at 5:00 am or yesterday hasn't ended yet" Hall, Deb "nothing has changed" Holtzman, Jeff "SMOS" Hildebrand, Melissapline "To sing a song that oldwas sung/ From ashes ancient gower is come" Shaner, Barbara Need "Eonceptor", Joshua "Many sharp pointy teeth and _my_ pen" Mackay-Smith, Jennie "Let's try having the next reunion in a telephone booth" Fox, Peter"David Auer" Wong (No, I haven't graduated yet), DianAnaid Stiefbold, Sam "Thanks to Larry for taking my place." Weiler, Eric "Hindmost" Knapp, Dan Levi (42 = 6*6+6, Satan is the answer!), Aaron "Proto dinosaur" Brockett, Julianna "Burning in Cyberspace" Patrick, Jacob "restart the naked petrouella society!" Mattison, jere7my "A loaf of wine, a jug of bread, and a VCR" Tho?rpe, Jen "Something vaguely interesting" Setlow, Ross "It's too late." Dickson, KIR COUGAR, JAZZAROONI, MOM & PAPA KARPF, Josh "mishmash" Burdick, GAVIN SCHNITZLER & RUTH OF THE ALFASSO, Ariel "I am _not_ Jeff" Glenn, Charles "Not Jeff either nor a potted plant" Danforth, Jed "like a pair of scuttling claws" Hartman, Sherry "Why do we do this" Levi, Jay "well-braided" Scott, Geoff (well, not really) Hopcraft, Ahyana "_Blue_"-"There's no space so I've to sign in the top margin. How _SWIL_!"- Clark - an exhausted Literature & The Grotesque