Skiffy
the University of Chicago's
science fiction & gaming club
(no, it's not a brand of peanut butter)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!
Yeah, So. Skiffy is Dead.
You mean, like, Dead-Dead? Like
Dead-Dead.
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as you may gather from
the statement above, the club known as skiffy doesn't really
exist any more. we sort of fizzled. it was fun while it
lasted, but sadly it's over now. we leave up our page as
a tribute to the good times we had and as inspiration for
further insanity, should some being, at some future date,
choose to instigate such.
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Welcome! As you may have gathered from the above, Skiffy is a non-food substance.
In fact, Skiffy is a very specific non-food substance: the University of Chicago's
Science Fiction & Gaming Club. We get together on a weekly basis for the
purpose of sharing and/or reading and/or discussing SciFi and/or Fantasy and/or
Horror novels, short stories, movies, hypotheses, religions, etc. Said weekly
gatherings also involve playing and/or discussing and/or making up card games,
board games, role playing games, etc. Occasionally, we plan something more ambitious:
bringing in an outside speaker, taking trips to local conventions, bookstores,
gaming stores, or whatever else may strike our fancy!
Meetings begin January 8! All are welcome!
Skiffy meets every Wednesday night in rooms 216 & 217 of Ida
Noyes Hall (the really big building at the corner of 59th & Woodlawn
that isn't Rockefeller Chapel) from 7pm-12am. Everyone interested (students,
grad students, faculty, staff, ordinary people, nonordinary people, nameless
horrors, aliens, etc.) is welcome and encouraged to drop on by (though we'd
really like it if nameless horrors gave us warning first).
Further points of interest on these pages:
- Skiffy-related mailing lists you can join
- The officers who do their best to keep Skiffy
from chasing its own tail 'round and 'round until it collapses from sheer
exhaustion
- Skiffy's schedule for winter quarter 2003 -
weekly meetings, special happenings, future plans, as well as info on book
discussions past, present, and future
- The Skiffy constitution - laws, bylaws, and general
amusement
- Once upon a time, there was a U of C gaming group that called itself FNORD.
FNORD is no longer active, but the FNORD constitution
involved more laws, bylaws, and general amusement
- Once upon a very long-ago time, there was a U of C gaming group that called
itself simply The Gamers. The Gamers is really no longer active, but
the Gamers constitution involved (can you guess?)
still more laws, bylaws, and general amusement
- Links which may be of interest (bookstores, conventions,
etc.)
- Skiffy Members (watch this space! link coming at some point before the
end of the world... we hope)
skiffy webguru