Top Ten Reasons Why mathNEWS Has Lasted 500 Issues

By Rick McTavish

10. Makes for a great source of small talk during those embarrassing silences on first dates.
9. Mike Harris hasn't figured out how to cut our funding yet
8. We had to do something when we were too drunk to get served at the Bombshelter.
7. Better use of paper than for exams.
6. Due to the efforts of a hardworking and dedicated team of the top newspaper writers in the country ... NOT!
5. It wasn't created by engineers.
4. Three letters: P.E.Z.
3. "500 issues"...I thought you said "pass the tissues"
2. How else are people supposed to keep awake during Friday morning lectures.
1. profQUOTES!

Rick McTavish (C&O '91) is currently working in the I.S. department of H.J. Heinz Canada in Toronto. He has been married for 4 years and has a 2-year-old son Fernando. He edited mathNEWS during the Summer of '88 and Winter '89.