Enter Brenda! Greetings and salutations! Just a wee note from your friendly Social and Promotions ’ director to let you all in on what the next few months have in for store. First of all, Jodie Feist has taken over the promotions part of my job, so I’m a social butterfly now. Kind of like Julie, the cruise director, on The Love Boat. And yes, for those of you at Sgt.’s two weeks ago, I did know all the words to The Love Boat theme. Just showing my age, I guess. Does anyone else remember those Friday nights with The Love Boat and Fantasy Island? Maybe if we all concentrate really hard, we can imagine that we are all on Fantasy Island with Tattoo and Mr. Rouke. Show, snow, disappear: come back another year. Like maybe after I’ve graduated. Well, back to business. February 8th and 9th, “we are hosting a comedy festival in the Canfor Theatre. Two comics, live, in person, and uncensored. Tickets will be available at the Tuning Point in Spruceland and at the UNBC Bookstore. February 14th and 15th will be another great Winterfest, so come out, be entertained and show your school spirit. February 20th will be the return of that psychic extraodinaire, Dan Valkos. This time he will be in the Wintergarden for a lunch hour question and answer period. You can ask him all kinds of things, “Am I going to fail Chem?’ If he says yes, why bother studying? More free time to spend on events. Kidding! I hope to see everyone out and having a great time. Any ideas for upcoming events? Tell me!!! How am I supposed to know what you want if you don’t tell me? God, sounds like my last relationship...but that’s a whole other story. Bye for now. Brenda Haggerty Director of Social and (sort of) Promotions. Look Up...Way Up! Things to See in the Night Sky Prepared by: ADO OBJECT TO LOOK FOR IN THE NIGHT SKY (NORTHERN LATITUDES) SATURN is fairly high above the horizon in the southwest in the early evening. It looks like a bright-yellowish star, and is the brightest object in that part of the sky. MARS rises around 10:00 p.m. in the east and is visible in the southwest before dawn. it looks like a fairly bright yellowish-reddish star, and will continue to brighten over the coming weeks as the distance between Earth and Mars in their orbit gets smaller. VENUS is extremely low in the southeast just before dawn, getting lost in the glare of dawn. It looks like an extremely bright star. MERCURY is low on the horizon in the east-southeast before and during sunrise, looking like a fairly bright star. look for it above and significantly to the right of VENUS. COMET HALE-BOPP is getting easier to see, but is still somewhat challenging, particularly when the Moon is up. Look low in the east an hour or more before sunrise above the bright star Altair, far to the lower right of the bright star-— Miewa: — (It ~1iss at approximately RA 19h 40m, Dec +15 deg.) Binoculars provide a much better chance of seeing it, and the farther north you live, the higher it will be above the horizon. It . will appear as a fuzzy white patch surrounding a somewhat brighter centre and you may be able to see a tail pointing upwards. It should be easily visible to the naked eye at its peak brightness in March and April. For more on Hale-Bopp: http://www.sji.org/ed/ halebopp.htm1 “THE MOON Last Quarter Moon occurs Jan 31 at 11:40 a.m. PST (UT-8 hours) TOP TEN QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT THIS YEAR’S | POWDERFEST (Answers and Details - Page 10) 1. Where is the trip going? 2. When is the trip going, and for how long? 3. Where are we staying? They have a pool and a hot tub?! 4.Is it the same wacko driver as last year? 5. What about rentals? 6. What about food and bevwvies? 7. Do I need to put down a deposit? 8. HOW MUCH? HOW CAN IT BE THAT CHEAP? 9. ARE YOU SURE IT’S THAT CHEAP? 10. What’s going on with the skis and the snowboard? I can win those??!! POWDERFEST THOSE THAT WENT LAST YEAR KNOW ABOUT IT THOSE THAT DIDN’T, HEARD ABOUT IT RESERVE EARLY! THIS WEEK IN SPACE HISTORY Jan 31, 1958: Explorer 1 was launched. It was the first successful U.S. satellite. Jan 29, 1989: The Soviet Phobos 2 spacecraft went into orbit around Mars. It obtained various data about Mars and its moon Phobos before failing prematurely two months later. RANDOM SPACE FACT The moon actually appears much brighter than the Sun at — gamma ray wavelengths (as seen from the Earth-orbiting Compton Gamma _ Ray Observatory).