From jgoldie @ sccs.swarthmore.edu Mon Nov 21 01:21:17 2005 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:15:50 -0500 (EST) From: Jillian G. Waldman Reply-To: presidents @ swil.org To: SWILnews Subject: SWILnews #8 of Avogadro Pie In the dark times before meeting began, there were already notes. The notes were taken by Finlay, and they were not taken so much as drawn. The notes indicate that the Eighth SWILmeeting of the Fall Semester of the reign of the Ironic Presidency took place on the twelfth day of the eleventh month, 2005. The notes also depict a stick-figurish Chaos sitting all alone, with eggplant, in Pittsburgh, twiddling her thumbs, and the caption says "Chaos Theory". This may have made more sense at the time. The notes then tell the tragic tale of Finlay eyeing the SWILnotes for just long enough for the presidents to inform her that she was going to take them. This is followed by the tragic tale wherein Satan turns out not to be Jackie, despite the fact that she is Legion and has homework. The likeness is striking. The meeting was called to disorder at 12:09 pm, with the closing of the doors, and some appropriate utterances by the Presidents. == SWIL Business == [do not mock my wiki syntax. wiki is sacred. -c] We discussed SWILmovie. In particular, we discussed the problem of low attendance at SWILmovie, and whether it was worth having all these movie showings if Jillian was convinced no one in SWIL went to them. We determined that SWILfolk actually do go to SWILmovies, and that SWILfolk are strongly opposed to the idea of showing fewer than 15 movies in a semester, in the hopes of getting higher per-movie attendance. Then we discussed whether SWILmovie was at a good time, since that might have something to do with the low attendance. Maybe 10:00 on a monday night is too late? Too early? Too monday? Various MLers suggested having the movie right after dinner, so that they wouldn't have time to go home and become attached to their desks, beds, and computers. Various other MLers suggested that they had karate right after dinner after monday nights, or seminar, or other things that would be a conflict every single week of the semester if they were a conflict at all. One MLer suggested moving the movie to 9:00 on Monday nights, instead of 10, so that it wouldn't require people to stay up all night -- however, this would still conflict with seminars. Thursday was discussed and thrown out due to Puckers, Folkdance, and seminars. The presidents deicded that, in addition to all the movies on the movie voting ballot, people will also have to indicate which movie times they'll actually be able (and willing) to go to, so we can figure out if it's actually a good idea to move SWILmovie to another weeknight/time. Then apparently someone shrieked, possibly because J had tweaked Andrew's ear. Jillian doesn't remember doing this, so it must have been Jackie. Andrew has a surprising resemblance to Satan, at least in the notes. But Satan has a tail. Remember that SWIL Presidential nominations are the weekend after Thanksgiving Break. Bring platforms. PHILCON, the big annual science fiction convention in Philadelphia, is the weekend after that. BDan reported that we have a hotel room there. Jillian reported that SWIL elections, since they're on Saturday the 10th, are right in the middle of Philcon. If you're missing meeting for Philcon (bad people! don't miss meeting!) you should email your vote to the presidents in advance. Finlay reported that a group of people is definitely leaving from Philcon to not miss meeting. Jillian reported that Ben still hadn't told her the Philcon schedule, and that he still had the filkbooks. However, she has now obtained the filkbooks, as well as evidence that Ben doesn't know the Philcon schedule either. Apparently Philcon likes its secrets, or its disorganization. Mai polled the rabble as to whether Heart was the lamest of the Captain Planet characters. Apathy ensued. == The Lottery == Mike Karcher won the lottery. He opted against the banana (which is ineligible to run for SWILpresident -c) and chose the Mystery Bowl, which contained ... a blank tape! (Yay! -the notes) We voted not to reuse the banana as next week's lottery prize. == Non-SWIL Business == * Friday the 18th at 8 pm in Lang there was a wind ensemble concert, starring Andrew in a suit. * Jackie's radio show at 4 pm on Sunday had a presidential advertisement. ** we voted that she was only allowed to make her advertisement if she followed it with "I'm Jackie, and I approve this message". * There was Stew on Sunday, probably in ML Breakfast room, but more likely in ML basement kitchen because the Breakfast room kitchen was locked. * David Stifler proposed a potential Saturday Night SWIL of foam weaponry. There was general approval. * There was a walking Rallye in Philly on Sunday. You missed it. Jim won. Jillian and Bethany came in 5th. * Thursdays from 1-6, Mai (et alia) are selling jewelry and other prettiness in Science Commons. * Haverford, which turns out to exist, has a fencing team (also cricket). Contact bblonde1 if you want to poke things. Practices are being held at both (ours and their) campuses. * There was discussion of pumpkins cannons, but they were determined to be a bad idea. Particularly, it was determined that the Arboretum and/or the Ville would kill us if SWIL offered to move the Punkin Chunkin from delaware (where it's lost its home) to scenic Swarthmore. It'll just have to move to Maryland. * Greg proposed that we show Star Wars side-by-side-by-side-by-side-by-side-by-side, and revise the purity test accordingly. * Arthur proposed that we buy lots of Coke, and kick it, thus demonstrating our scorn for Coca-Cola's immoral policies while supporting them financially. We voted to prop it and not run it. Then we voted to continue shouting and raising our hands. Then we voted to end meeting. Meeting ended. The end. == Attendance List of Avogadro's #'s Unlikelihood of Coming Up on a D8 == Michael "Proprietary again!" Noda Sarah "brrzzzMEEP!" Hartman Alexandr "#define__KERNEL__" Pshenichkin Eliza "GOTO 10" Blair Arthur "DURP DURP FOREVER!!!" Chu Rebecca "Not For Eating" Goldman Finlay "investigating" Logan Jackie "I refuse to write in hot pink. Feel the wrath of the red pen of DOOM!" Werner Meggie "I burned down a city last night!" Ladlow Mike "Durp, in absence of durp" Karcher Greg "Heavy Metal Queen" Robinson (I read that as Heavy Meta Queen. I wonder what that would be. -c) David "I haven't been here since September" Stifler David Pupkin - The Ironic Presidency, Iron Man, Iron Fist, and Iron Curtain