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Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 08:59:26 -0400
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Subject: SWILnews, by Marcel Duchamp ( not really a news but an end of the year
 wrap-up)

Scene: James at her computer, a darling little Mac Classic with a hum at
about the decibel level of the average tractor.  The clock reads 7:43 am. 
She has just awoken from disturbing dreams to find that happily she has not
turned into a giant cockroach.  In her  relief she  decides to appease the
bloody news gods, whose rumblings have been audible in the background of
her life (or maybe it's just that darling little Mac classic again) fot the
past few weeks.  She is aware that the Giant Peach is not with her
currently (no, their relationship is not _that_ interesting), that the
notes from last week's meeting reside with him, (unless he inadvertently
scribbled his Phenomenology/Existentialism Honors exam upon the unlucky
sheets; what a depressing way for binder paper to achieve enlightenment)
and that rousing a man who owns a Claymore before 8AM is simply asking for
it.  Besides, if she starts this one herself she'll be able to put in all
of the nifty French New Wave Cinema references which will make jere7my
tho?rpe jump up and down on the table like a gibbon.   Okay, her mind is
made up, she rolls up the sleves of her rapidly unraveling tweed sweater
and  types...

Here's a sort of SWILnews, to keep everyone up on the end of the year
activites before James buries herself in her room to finish her papers and
The Giant Peach has to break the door down with the Claymore to get the
real one written.

Everything SWIL-Related You Need To Know Before The End Of The Year:

1.  Reading week has transformed into finals week and the glorious
procrastination of those Schlock and Gaming filled nights has receded into
fond memory... or has it?  No, wait, I hear a white horse approaching,
what's that rounding the bend with lean and muscular knees?  It's the last
SWIL event of the year, the final shebang, Besh, Kendra, Charles and Dan
Eisenbud's brainchild, it's

The all-day, all night J.R.R. Tolkein Reading Marathon!!!  
To begin in ML breakfast room on Friday at 1pm and continue through the
night , punctuated by a break for wink and full-contact red-light green
light sometime around 8 pm  and ending Saturday at 12 noon, just in time
for the truly enduring to stagger to the last SWIL meeting of the year and
collapse in their breakfast cereal.  Bring a blanket, food, deodorant and
your copies of the Fellowship of the Ring (we won't get through it all, but
bring at least the first two books and Bored of the Rings if you have it,
because we very well might be after 15 hours or so of reading Tolkein
aloud.  Speaking from experience as a part-time participant in the 26-hour
_Ulysses_  reading last year this is a really fun and an experience you
won't forget.  No one is expected to be there the entire time except for
maybe Kendra who has finished her honors exam an is replenishing her stores
of fun, which this semester depleted significantly.  Drop in and read a
chapter, no practice is necessary.   Having a lot of people for  wink and
other  raucous games will  also be good.  

2.  T-shirts have been ordered and are supposed to be availiable on the
12th.  However, there is no guarantee that the printing place will actually
cough them up on schedule.  Megan Hallam, shirt guru, needs you address if
you are leaving soon and will not be returning in the fall, so that she can
mail your shirt to you over ths summer.  Contact her at mhallam1.  The rest
of us can cross our fingers and hope that we don't have to wait until fall
to sport our fabulous garb.  If you still owe Megan money, PLEASE PAY HER
THE $8.50 ASAP so that she can finish her sophomore year happy and solvent.
 In case you missed the deadline and would like a reprint of "SWILlies
Crunch: Don't try to outweird us, we get stranger things that you in our
breakfast cereal." also talk to Megan, although you may need to wait until
the fall.  It has been suggested that the T-shirt design be put on the SWIL
Web Page.  Melissa and Aaron, if you have the time, it would be cool, but
it's understandable if this too must wait until fall.

3.  James is contacting the local library, which has offered to donate to
the SWIL libraries the leftover books from their sale.  Fred bush says the
selection is pretty good, let's hope there's still good stuff when it gets
to us.

4.  As some of you may have noticed, there are copies of BEM floating
around on the table at the front of Sharples.  Yup, our friendly Messiah,
Josh Burdick has whupped the rears that needed to be whupped (I'll leave
the details to your vivid imaginations) and turned out a damn fine issue,
featuring mostly the efforts of dinosaurs because current SWILfolk were a
little lax on submitting to Josh (ahem).  Many thanks to all who helped to
ressurrect BEM, proofread it and put the financial paperwork through budget
committee before they closed -Josh, Larry, Kendra, Julianna, Dan (an anyone
I've forgotten)-to Stephen Sample for collating the original set of
submissions and creating e-BEM and everyone who submitted their work. 
Issues will be appearing periodically on the table in Sharples and will be
availiable at Saturday's meeting.  The leftovers will be kept in George 
for your  leisurely perusal.

5.  Other that that, the first ever "Take Your Phone to Dinner Day" went
pretty well with at least ten phones seeing the small room for the very
first time.  Some of them needed to be separated  for engaging in deviant
behaviour involving the much neglected octothorpe.   jere7my tho?rpe has
issued the statement that he is no relation to the symbol  formerly known
as the pound sign,  (#) nor is he deviant and much neglected.

6.  If you've been surfing that massive parking lot on the information
superhighway known as the World Wide Web, you'll have noticed that the SWIL
home page is now linked to a niftty unofficial SWIL page by soon to be SWIL
Webmaster Melissa Binde.  If you haven't seen it, check it out.  Oh, and a
fond farewell to current keeper of the home page, moaded boy himself, Aaron
Hertzmann - who returns next fall to Rice where the humanities are lame and
the vegetables are cooked in lard.

7.  Another fond farewell to the horde of graduating seniors as they pass
into antediluvian existences elsewhere or nearby.  Join SWAPA or keep in
touch some other way.  The same goes for everyone leaving for study abroad
or in Georgia (same thing) or otherwise leaving next semester.

Good luck finishing up and have a great summer everyone.

                                                                        -James