The Once and Future 'Zine
	The first issue of CUSFuSsing was printed in September of 1978 under the title Quandry, as a newsletter to update the campus on the activities of what was then known as the Barnard Columbia Science Fiction Society (BCSFS).       Charlie Seelig was the first editor of the BCSFS newsletter, and initially he was also responsible for much of its content. By the fifth issue in December 1978, it was discovered and confirmed that there was already a fanzine named Quandry, and a quite popular one at that, so it was necessary to rename the newsletter CUSFuSsing. This was not the last change made to CUSFuSsing; as the fanzine changed editors over the years, the format and content also changed, and by the end of its 21-year run, it would undergo a second name change, amidst great controversy.       CUSFuSsing is a not only a link to the history of CUSFS, but it connects us to important events in Columbia history and the science fiction world at large. Past issues of CUSFuSsing saw letters from leading sci-fi authors such as Spider Robinson, who named the BCSFS as the  student group that blows up Ferris Booth Hall in his novel Telempath (issue #6); Ursula Le Guin submitted a delightful and anatomically correct cartoon in issue # 48.       Surprisingly, original short science fiction stories did not appear in CUSFuSsing until issue #38 in March of 1983, which cemented the format of the fanzine for the rest of its publication. Prior to this, the BCSFS had a literary journal named Sol III, which was even more sporadically published than CUSFuSsing. To be fair, as CUSFuSsing came into its own as a full-fledged fanzine, respected all over the world, it became more and more difficult to keep up with the rigors of regular publication, especially in the midst of classes, managing the BCSFS, and organizing the annual Apricons. With the remarkable march of technology, the days of mimeograph, scissors, and rubber cement were left behind, but even advances in computers could not keep CUSFuSsing going.       The last issue of CUSFuSsing was printed in Spring of 1989, under the short-lived yet strangely appropriate title Entropy, ending the two decade run of the fanzine at issue #52. Though there was a one-shot revival by BCSFS alumni in October 1994, with a memorial issue in honor of Elizabeth Edersheim, the remaining members of CUSFS were too wise or too lazy to revive the fanzine.        Finally, in December 2000, the first issue of CUSFuSsing in six years will make its grand debut right where we left off, at issue #53. Catching up with technology and simplifying the production process, this new version of the CUSFS fanzine is completely web-based, currently edited by recent CUSFS alum Eugene Myers, who so far has failed to learn the lessons of his predecessors.       Stay tuned to this section of CUSFuSsing Online as a timeline of CUSFS/CUSFuSsing landmarks is added in the coming months. Also, the original run of CUSFuSsing is currently being archived and added to the site as quickly as possible.