A year ago I hated computers and I was convinced they hated me. I really had no reason to like them, anyway. We didn't have one at home (and still don't). l wasn't into video games, and if I ever needed a paper typed, my mom offered the lowest price per page around.

Pack your bags, music lovers. Carolyn Post is taking a trip to the fringes of Alternative Nation. And from the sounds of it, she might not be returning to the realm of the mainstream. Meanwhile, back at the ethos office, we're still waiting for our souvenirs.

As students pass Old Botany in the coming month s, they are likely to notice a slow transformation. This historic building, once slated for demolition, will soon be restored to house the Carrie Chapman Can Center for Women and Politics, offices of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the philosophy department.

To most Americans, Jurassic Park was a too-realistic, barebones Michael Crichton novel that Steven Spielberg envisaged into a sensational thriller and the year's highest-grossing film. Even those among us who can't tell a strand of DNA from a spiral staircase left the theater with shaky knees, white knuckles, and a speck of curiosity: could any of that actually happen?

Ames may not be the next Seattle, Chapel Hill, or wherever else bands seem to be popping up, but it does get its fair share of live music. Some of the shows were so good you just had to be there, but if you weren't, here is a little overview of a few of the musicians who set Ames' cumulative stage aglow.