Date: Thu, 4 Mar 93 14:33:48 -0500
To: _swat.org.swil @ math.wisc.edu
From: jthorpe1 @ cc.swarthmore.edu
Subject: Hey!  Electrons comin' at ya, and they're screaming
SWILNEWS!!!!

        Hey, ladies and gentlemen and whatnots, welcome to the Weekly
Non-Interactive Electronic Communication Item we here like to call the
SWILnews.  Boy, have we had a fun and exciting week.  For starters, our
meeting place was unceremoniously stolen on Saturday, which meant we had
to
eat in a different room.  A motion was proposed that we hold the meeting
amongst the other meeting, but was shot down like a duck making faces at
an
NRA conference.

        Lesley Tsina was (finally) dismembered by attending three
consecutive meetings, missing one, and then attending one further
consecutive meeting (by Arbitrary Rule XII) and proving sentience.  This
last was accomplished, in the end, by showing that she "knows what lurks
in
the hearts and minds of men: fluids."  Funerary rites for Lesley will be
held for ransom.

        A trio of friendly pilgrims journeyed to Borders Book Shop to
hear
Judith Moffett read from her latest book, _Time, Like an Ever-Rolling
Stream_, and ask her questions about same.  The comparison was made to
Madeline L'Engle's works, but we all seemed to think the book was pretty
cool anyway.  No copy was purchased for Birdwainer, due to a lack of
funds
and forethought.

        A filk to the tune of They Might Be Giants' "I Palindrome I" has
been proposed and discarded: "5 Babylon 5."  Just a thought.

        Remember to sign up for T-shirts on the SWIL board (if you want
one) before March 17th.  Also remember to bring home the books you've
promised to Lynn Westling from Spring Break.  I know she gets _mean_
when
she's riled up.  (She actually _ate_ a diode laser this summer!)  (Ha!)

        Of course, there are NO (zero, zip, nada, nihil, niente, goose
egg,
bumpkus, naught) SWIL meetings the next two Saturdays, because Sharples
will be as closed as closed can be.  (Of course, if twelve or more of
you
stop by my or Aaron's room Saturday at noon, you will be railed upon and
possibly bitten.)

        So.  We'll see you all (some of you, anyway) in a couple of
weeks...have good breaks, don't take any wooden nickels, etc. etc.
etc... 
If you're looking for reading material for the upcoming Week with
Nothing
to Do, check out George or Birdwainer and dig some up.

(SWIL, of course) ATTENDANCE FEB. 27 '93
Don "I can't deal with the instability of the room" Lehr; Geoff
"solid--thank you..." Noer; Lesley "concious and aware of what lurks in
the
hearts and minds of men." Tsina; Robert "Fluids" Richardson; Charles
"PLANARIAN!!!" X.; Eric "It's small, but it's cozy." Nute [I say
nothing...NOTH-ing! --O]; Deb "Least common diode" Sam [No, it stands
for
Little Clever Doo-dads. --O]; Jim; Charles "In the room, not Abstentic"
Deily; Camel Driver of the Apocalypse!!

                                      Praefecti Quondam
                                          Praefectique Futuri