Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 14:13:20 -0500
To: _swat.org.swil @ math.wisc.edu
From: jthorpe1 @ cc.swarthmore.edu
Subject: The World of Rain

        Welcome to the World of Rain.  Our area of interest this week is
Swarthmore, where the ML tunnel has sprung leaks and lower campus has
sprung lakes.  Rain, that lovely life-giving substance, has been
cancelling
Archery classes left and right...

        No!  We're not REALLY the World of Rain!  April Fools!  This is
a
SWILnews!  Ha ha!  And we're going to tell you, not about rain, but
about
SWIL business!  Ooh boy!  And impersonate Dave Barry!  Badly!

        The George C. Hurliman Memorial Library will definitely need to
be
moved somewhere next year (as it will soon be a dorm room), and Teddddd
Goundie has offered a small room beyond Dead Dog Kitchen in ML for our
use.
 It is dusty and full of junk, but Tedddd has offered to clean it up for
us
if we decide to use it.  I suppose people should take a look at it, so
we
can have some sort of voting or something about it, within a week or
two.

        We have a budget!  Hooray, and thanks to Jim!  It seems that
Orientation Committee will be paying for our mailbox stuffing next Fall
(ho
ho), Student Council will pay for our refreshments (we hope), and Forum
for
Free Speech will pay for our speaker (we assume).  Apart from that,
everything is the same, except we've got some extra supplies bucks.
Dunno
what we'll use them for--duct tape for Live Chess this year?  Nah...

        Speaking of marvelous segues, Live Chess will be happening
(probably Saturday after Folkdancing after lunch) on Parents' Weekend. 
Lisa Stefanowich is organizing, so speak to her about signing up.  This
year's is a little different--we've got CONTEST CHESS!  To take a
square,
you must do something unspecified (like answer a riddle or something). 
(Um, that part is still being worked out.  Write to lstefan1 with
suggestions.)

        Give Nao $7.50 if you ordered a T-shirt.

        Give Stephen a story if you want there to be a BEM.

        A regular Mystery Science Theater 3000 source has been located:
Alex Juhasz' boyfriend!  This means EVERY weekend can be filled with the
melodious sounds of laughter (and the odious sounds of bad acting),
along
with Joel and his robot friends!  Ask me about it for details.

        In the same vein, we should have a copy of the 4-hour version of
Dune as of Saturday, and those who would like to watch it should talk to
Charles Danforth and/or me.  (Charles will have the tape; I will have
the
VCR.  Two great technological advances that taste great together.)

        Methinks that is just about all the space we have news for.
Stay
tuned to this spot ---> * for further advances.  We'll see y'all on
Saturday, when we'll discuss the moving of George.  So, here's the...

attendance list with small title for 3:27:93
Don "attendee with small name" Lehr; Bruce "Stegasaurus" Hahne; David
"dinosaurivore" Randall; Andrea "babbling" Hall; Melissa "speak to me,
fudge wall" Shaner; Jen "just write me in" Setlow; Erica "I thought that
was your foot, but its a manatee" Carpenter; Lisa "check and mate and
Charles' armor" Stef. [I don't WANT to mate with Charles' armor. --O];
Jove
"feelin' mighty groovy today, thank you" Graham; Aaron "famous American
Regionalist Painter" Brockett [Hey, wow.  I never knew.  --F]; Robert
"Melt
the food, _all of it_" Richardson; Charles "quick, your father's
coming!"
X; Lesley "destined to get the Baltic Avenue of room assignments" Tsina
[Could be worse--could be the water works. --O]; Dan "Why's Andrea
babbling" Wells; Samuel "Evicting" Weiler; Kendra "me & Gene
Hackman--good
in anything" Eshleman [Hey! --O]; Geoff "last? with a tray, plate, two
glasses, on spoon, one fork, and one knife (not to mention half an
omelette), none of which are missing from Sharples" Noer; Whoppa Whoppa;
Jim "Better Nate than Lever" MacLeod [And toonierisms, spoo?  Hi Lisa.
:)=
--O]; Deb "Wet hair in the morning" Sam [Then just walk away, la la
la...
--O]; Peter "Dullsville" Wong

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