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Natalie Weber | Wednesday, December 6, 2017
While many students are preparing to celebrate the holidays by decorating their dorms or shopping for presents, classics club is bringing an ancient celebration to campus Thursday: Saturnalia. “Saturnalia was a Roman holiday or festival that occurred around Christmas time, and it was in celebration of the Roman god Saturn,” senior Olivia May, the club’s
Stephen Raab | Monday, March 21, 2016
If I could force all politicians to never utter one phrase of my choosing again, it would be “common sense.” It’s everywhere. “Common sense” gun control from Bernie Sanders, “common sense” immigration bans from Donald Trump and “common sense” health insurance from Ted Cruz. The phrase has saturated political discourse, and I’m sick of it.
Tori Roeck | Tuesday, February 4, 2014
In McKenna Hall on Tuesday night, classics professor Joseph Amar argued officials in the Greek portion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century C.E. distorted the legacy of Ephrem the Syrian, an influential Syrian Christian, to protect its own state-sponsored religion, as part of the year-long lecture series in honor of the late classics