This magazine, which means something like "super mixed plate" magazine, was initiated in Fall 1997 as a joint project between our three schools. The articles were written by students at Haverford and the University of Hawaii, with comments and feedback from our colleagues at Seiryou. While the articles were written by individual authors, they were posted on a web bulletin board (HernCrossing) at the University of Hawaii for comments before being posted in the magazine. The name "Choobarabarazine" resulted from a chat discussion among the authors at the three schools. It stems first from a trendy Japanese word, "chooberiberiguu" which is a mixture of Japanese "CHOO" meaning "super," "beriberi," from the English "very very" and "guu" for English "good." A couple of students felt that beriberi was not appropriate, and after considerable back and forth discussion in the chat room, they arrived at the idea of replacing "beriberi" with "barabara," which means something like "scattered about, mixed up." Hence the final title, Choobarabarazine. We hope to be able to invite students from other institutions to contribute to this magazine in the near future. For now, if you are interested in our work, please sign our guest book.