From aem @ sccs Tue Sep 12 17:04:59 2000 Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:24:12 -0500 (EST) From: Amy' Marinello To: _swat.org.swil @ swarthmore.edu Subject: Why don't you pass the time by playing a little SWILNews #4? Don't worry. We really, really, really, *really* do *not* have an evil plot to hide. We are loyal, obedient members of the Swarthmore community. We don't have a secret army, or a secret Q-bomb, or any secret massive destructive force ready to sweep down upon the Swarthmore campus at our whim. (I'd like to think of it as an ascending tricolon of things we don't have, but I'm a classicist. -a) We are just your good-natured, friendly SWIL copresidents. And this is just a good-natured, friendly, *perfectly* *normal* SWILNews. Really. You can trust us. ^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^ SWILBusiness The left side of the rabble was good, the right side pathetic. Jimmosk was "Zen disorderly". (Why was he disorderly Zen? He's supposed to be disorderly now! -b) The Massacre has happened! At 6pm, seven good-natured, friendly thugtrons burst into Sharples with "cap" guns. The following exchange was overheard: "What do youse guys want?" "Message from Big Al: Die, you gravy-sucking pigs!" (That message was from Al Capone, not Al Bloom. -a) (Shh, everybody. That's what we're letting her believe. -q) The casualty list was: Elliot, Hollis, BDan, Franzi, Kyla, Kyra, Kira, Catherine, Rebecca P., Rebecca K., and Otavia. Agents Chaos, Comma, Abby, Amy, Amy', and "Scott" are to report to headquarters for their next assignment. Important message: Hollis arrived. He'd been "in the shower". He "brought" DanB with him. We oohed. Terrence Masson will be here February 17-19. He's the "ILM guy". Debriefings of his recent work will take place on the following schedule: Thursday 2/17: Scheuer Room, 4pm. "Digital Canvas: The Computer as an Artistic Medium" Friday 2/18: LPAC, 8pm. "The History and Development of Computer Graphics in the Visual Effects Industry" Saturday 2/19: LPAC Cinema, 4pm. "Cornerstones of Digital Reality: The Technology of Computer Graphics and Effects" We would like to thank the "William J. Cooper Foundation" for aiding in our "sponsorship" of this "event". All should come for instructi--fun. The Committee to "Replace" Amy reported the following: * Susan Cooper has a $2000 speaker fee. * Norton Juster wants $1000 plus expenses and is free the first two weekends in April. * Our contact has yet to establish communication with Tamara Pierce. To get someone this semester, we need to act now. Therefore, a vote between Susan Cooper, Norton Juster, and Tamara Pierce if we have information by then, will "happen" at this coming Saturday's meeting. If you are a current nonmember and cannot attend this meeting, email your vote to abigail @ sccs by Friday night. Some suggestions were made for Schlock. (That reminds me. Did you forget to pick up the secret microfilm, Abi-Wan? -q) Voting will happen shortly after spring break, so unless you want to see _Orgasmo_, the Mormon porno-superhero, you should think of suggestions of your own. T-shirt designs are due by spring break! BEM is due by February 28! "Kira is awake day and night," so among her, Heather, and Anna, you should be able to pass your "creative" information on to somebody whenever you can manage to break away from your "studies". (That's not the only thing that'll be breaking if you don't get those submissions in! -a) Spam... must... die (ahem! -a). Tell us how. Voting on ideas will happen at February 26's meeting, so have your suggestions ready to present by then. ^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^ NonSWILBusiness Lindsay is making a SWIL recipie book (working title: "To Serve SWIL"? -b). Email her your favorite "food" preparation instructions. Along the lines of food, Andrea left about 120 copies of "Bug-Eyed Menu" in Jimmosk's apartment (books? Along the lines of Sharples food, perhaps -q). Come and get it! Chaos had a drinking party, in honor of which she managed to "get up" Saturday morning. (Some of us nearly even managed to "get up" Sunday morning! -q) The English-Scottish Ball was fun (yawn -q) (smack -ab). Our efforts to detain SWILfolk by means of the "Buffy Marathons" continued. Abi-Wan is hosting a Robin Hood night Saturday in Kohlberg 116. At 6:30, she will "display" _Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves_, and at about 9:00, she will "conclude" with Disney's animated _Robin Hood_. On the 25th, DanB is hosting a movie night in Kohlberg 115. 7:30: _The Sweet Hereafter_ 9:30: _Gods and Monsters_ This coming weekend, he will go to see Strauss, Best of Orchestra and would like (a -a) company. Tomorrow, pitchers and catchers "report" for "spring" training. (Guess who mentioned that... -q) Radio transcripts of _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ have been intercepted and will be reviewed this Friday evening at 7:30 in Greylock 301. Come to listen or help crack the code! ^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^ The Attendance List of (Impending! -q) Pain and Illness Arcadia "yay complex braiding systems" Falcone Rebecca "Recovering" Paul + 2 Inhalers (excellent... everything is going according to plan -a) Jim "do you think it's just coincidence that SWIL spelled upside down is 7IMS?" Moskowitz (no! -q) (yes! -b) (shh! We didn't want them to know that! -a) Kyla "pain but no illness, and tea! and Freshmen's Folly!" Tornheim Robert "Nothing clever to say" McFarland (ha ha ha!!! ROTFL! -q) Rebecca "Balls are fun" Jones (uhhhhh -a) Jennifer "An Eirinar ni neosfainn ce hi" Tyson (if you're going to use another language, write clearly! -a) Sam "ears ache no more" Weiler Rebecca "die! vampires, die! (except the good ones)" Kuipers Franzi "I love pink!" Dickson BDan "Ha, ha, ha, hack, hack, cough" Fairchild (excellent... everything is *still* going according to plan -q) Jay "Jack of all quotes, master of none" Scott Sarah "ow. I think I got Sam's earache" Berstrom (excellent... you know the rest -b) Amy "avoiding dancing fatigue in happy drug land" Swift Lindsay "dude, life's too short to make sense" Herron (oo-kay -q) Kyra "Robert is Jarvis Crocker! Wow! I'm glad I'm in his harem!" Jucovy (ummmmm -b) (wait, if Robert's in my harem, and Kyra's in Robert's harem... are harems transitive? -q) chaos "the committee to replace the committee to replace the stack overflow error" golubitsky ~Elliot "It's all circumstancial evidence" Reed (suuure it is -a) Dan "I do not acknowledge South Carolina, just naked, fat, racist people" Blim benjamin 'could you do that again at fewer than sixty frames per second?' r, george Hollis "Ha ha! Jennffir can't catch me! Hahaha <> ow." Easter (good job, Agent Tyson -a) John "whoups there goes the train" Finkbiner ^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^ Your loyal and obedient copresidents, Abi-Wan Kenobi Ben Kenobi Queen "of Diamonds" (yay! -a) Amydala