mathNEWS wants YOU!

Write some stuff, win some money

mathNEWS works entirely on submissions from undergrads and some especially crotchety alumni. We're constantly looking for new writers in order to reduce dependency on crotchety alumni types. In order to encourage more submissions from Mathies, we've come up with this great idea! The "best" submission to each issue this term will win $25 Gift Certificate to HMV. Anyone is eligible! Faculty, alumni, staff, students, even that random guy from Iran!

How do we define "best"? Well, my co-editor and I will put our heads together and our subjective decision will be final. We promise not to choose ourselves, though, nor the editors that are off-stream right now.

We're not particularly choosy here at mathNEWS. Our criteria for publishing material are pretty simple: your article should be informative, interesting, insightful or funny. Long, rambling, pointless material is out. So are in-jokes, rants, and flamebait (i.e. no more articles about the damn exambank).

If you have a modicum of writing skill, feel free to submit. You have many options:

• Write it down on some paper and shove it in the BLACK BOX, conveniently located on the 3rd floor of the MC between the C&D and the Comfy Lounge. If you type up your article and print it off and then put it in there, we will be very upset, because you should...
• Email it to mathnews@student.math.uwaterloo.ca with the word "article" in the subject line. Alternatively, you can...
• Drop by Production Night! Write an article, and while you're there, help us with the proofreading and editing of the issue. All are welcome! The date of the next production night is given in the lookAHEAD of every issue.

See, isn't that simple? So, in summary, write for mathNEWS, win $25 to HMV! Submissions for the next issue are due at 6:30PM on June 20th.

Congratulations to this issue's winner, FIXME! Contact the editors to claim your prize!

Eric "inkEd" Logan

If you have questions, send them to mathnews@student.math.uwaterloo.ca