The Box: Wow. The box contains all kinds of good stuff, which I'm busy scanning in. I must say, though, digging through the box was like digging through layers/levels. I have broken it down in to X sections, as if you were going from top to bottom.

Layer1: The Small Box

The box is an oblongish brown box - looks like this, and

Overall contents

A digital watch, an envelope (more below) a small plastic container with 2 quarters (The newly minted ones: 1 Connecticut, 1 Massachusetts) and two ball bearings.

Here's the back of the watch and the two photographs that were in the envelope

Here's a closeup of that photo

A weird plastic bag, something from IBM - looks like some sort of data modeling/description symbol set, as well as two photos we have seen in mayday pages - the coin is the same as the one that was sent to me in this package.

The back of the IBM bag, and a dollar

Some loose coins

The backs of the coins, more photos we have seen from various pages - the single star was on the end of the box all this stuff came in.

Layer2: The Bag

First, there was an 'overall' page, which I'm sure pertains to the whole box: see it

The bag, pictured here contains:

An opening page. Ok, so I haven't seen the movie yet but I understand it does all sorts of funky things with 8:2 - "and frogs shall fall from the sky..."

All of these 'hint' pages are on some sort of geometric graph paper. The 'magnolia' one, for example, had this on the back...

A large amount of older pages, some of which contain messages:

May 1, 1988, but attached was this, the back of which looks like this

Nov 22, 1983, no message

Feb 8, 1989, no message

April 4, 1988, which let me reclassify the page I recieved on 02/08/00 to the correct date

April 27, 1988, no message

April 29, 1994, no message

Dec 4, 1991 - with this message, the back of which looks like this. Good ol' polar graph paper.

May 1, 1996 - with this hint. Looks like bank ledger paper to me.

May 1, 1993 - with this hint.

April 8, 1987 - no hint

Layer3: An envelope

Layer4: Two sheets of paper

Layer5: Another bag. This one was another plastic shopping bag, marked with "Varsity bookstore of Dallas, Inc. 6413 Hillcrest, Across from SMU". Its too big to scan in, but it is your average plastic shopping bag. Now things start getting weird.

Layer6: Copper plates: These are two copper plates (which scanned in horribly) about 3x5 inches, held together by clips. Inside:

It just keeps getting weirder...

Layer 7: Assorted weirdness: mainly color copies of random, yet cool images.

Layer 8: Some more PHOTOS, a postcard, and a comic

Layer 9: Two final pages... more color copies

I don't know if this helps, but the back of the "Magnolia" note is graph paper used by chemists to draw Ternary Phase
Diagrams. The names of the substances are written at each of the three corners. What I think is most interesting about this choice
is that a ternary phase diagram is a 2-dimensional representation of a 3-dimensional graph.

The "IBM bag" instantly reminded me of when I was taking programming in college in the early '80s.  
I had a couple of those flowchart templates although mine came in a paper sleave printed like that
plastic one in the picture.  A photo of the template can be seen here:

http://www.goldinc.com/~zing/cards/fctool.html

clue:  Another South African Airmail sticker

Layer 5, #2 - xerox sheet - news article in German - first column is discussing an explosion in a base used by a terrorist
organisation known as the 'Weathermen' and the death of one of their number, Theordore Gold - explosion appears to have been an
accident during the making of bombs. An account of the incident here:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/1.html

Note the Bob Dylan quote in the footnote at the bottom of this first column, the same one that has appeared in the announcements. 
This needs looking at some more.  Later :) J.

clue:  Layer 5, #2 - some more - the article is title 'More Mao than thou' - this appears to have been a motto associated with a
so-called-radical Marxist / Communist student-led group of the late 1960s.  A google of the term turns up only three hits, two the
same - the following throws a *little* light on those involved: 

http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2000/2000-August/014766.html

Groups involved in all this business appear to be, the already mentioned 'Weathermen', a member of the 'Black Panthers' is also
mentioned in the article IIRC and there is more on that at the first link I posted earlier, the SDS 'Student Democratic Society' -
mentioned in the article and at the 'mailman' link, also at the latter - a group? known as PL (?) and another RYM (a guess -
radical youth movement??).  The activities of these groups would be roundabout the same time as the earliest date we have from the
MayDay crowd and the Communist references tie in well enough.

Layer 1 - photo - Harvard Oriental Series, Ed. Charles Rockwell Lanman, volume 17 - what is in it: 
"Volume 17. The Yoga-System of Patańjali , or the ancient Hindu doctrine of concentration of mind, embracing the mnemonic rules,
called Yoga-Sūtras, of Patańjali; and the comment, called Yoga-Bhāshya, attributed to Veda-Vyāsa; and the explanation, called
Tattva-vāisāradī, of Vāchaspati-Misra; translated from the original Sanskrit by JAMES HAUGHTON WOODS, Professor of Philosophy in
Harvard University. 1914. Second issue, 1927. Pages, 422.d Comparative Philology at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 1916.
Pages, 508 + 206 = 714. Royal 8ŗ. Out of print." 

Rockwell Lanman was a Professor of Sanskrit, founded the series in 1891, very influential.

Layer 6, Greek text.

Back of photo #2, text is part of Matthew 13:44, "the kindom of heaven is like a treasure hidden.."

Back of photo #3, text is part of 1 Corinthians 13:12 "now we see through a glass darkly" - 'through a glass' is alternatively
rendered 'in a mirror' but 'through a glass' fits the pic better.

The laminated paper contains bits of two different texts put together as if one sentence, you will see there is a dot midway
through - this is placed at the join. The first is part of Matthew 24:9 "and you will be hated by all ('the nations' ommitted)
because of my name". Second part is from Matthew 24:13, "But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved." - the text on the
paper here begins with a lower case letter, and this must indicate that it should be read as a single sentence combined with the
bit of Matthew 24:9.

Replying to their question (or rather hint?) about what you marked as "May 1, 1988" (isn't it 1998?), the curly
characters seem to originate from Georgian language:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_language

I can ask around for translation, although the way it is positioned, it does not seem to have any kind of meaningful
message.

Layer 7, campus map:

About halfway down the letter, it says "Student Recreation Center/Life Sciences"... SR/CL anyone? The letter is saying it was
under construction, so perhaps some meeting there had to be cancelled?

I think figuring out what SR/CL stands for would really help figuring out what this all *MEANS*, I just don't find that whole
checklist thing very satisfactory.

Layer 5, photo 4 is absolutely not of any Joshua Tree. Instead, the main tree in the center reminds me of some pictures of 
Dragon's Blood trees I've seen. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_(plant)

 Layer 8, #8: The Sons of Liberty's Liberty Tree memorial in Boston. 
 This is what it looks like now: https://www.thefreedomtrail.org/images/stepofftrail/LibertyTree.jpg
The website mentions: The Liberty Tree
Marked by a large bronze plaque on the sidewalk and a bas-relief on the Department of Motor Vehicles 
building just one block down Boylston Street is the site where the Liberty Tree once stood. Hanging 
effigies of tax collectors on the Liberty Tree on August 14, 1765 is considered one of the first 
provocative events in pre-revolutionary America. Felled by Redcoats in 1775, the Liberty Tree was a 
meeting place and focal point for rallies and protests by the Sons of Liberty and became an important 
symbol for resistance to British rule.	

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