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...this German meteorologist as if he were a member of the Flat Earth Society. Convinced that the continents were anchored firmly in place, geologists dismissed as preposterous his theory that the earth's major land masses had once been huddled together in a single supercontinent, which he called Pangaea (Greek for "whole earth"), then began slowly drifting apart. Wegener had plenty of evidence, ranging from the jigsaw-like fit of the continents to the discovery of matching fossils on opposite sides of oceans, but he couldn't give a satisfactory explanation of what caused the global breakup...
...Greek-American physician George Papanicolaou develops the Pap smear, a screening test for cervical and uterine cancer...
Adams HouseAdams opens doors, greets first-years with cigars and roses--and no gong. These kids won the housing lottery. Saharan Nights We enjoyed the baklava, but since when has Greece been in the Sahara? What's next--baguettes on Greek night? Spring Break Long overdue respite from stress and exhaustion. Too bad everyone else in the world has two weeks. Pre-Spring Break Sections A no-win situation; skip class, or go and endure an hour of the sounds of silence. MTV Spring Break Thanks for allowing us to live vicariously through state school students. The editorial board
...kind, but I would say that these clubs do not play as big a role in social life as much similar clubs play at other colleges. I would say that the social life revolves around your different clubs, your team, your extracurricular, your dorm or blocking group. No big Greek life, but sort of a variety of other things...
HRDC's new production of Sophocles' Antigone is a bit overwhelming at first, beginning with a confusing torrent of voices and pantomimed scenes. What is important to understand is that Sophocles' classical Greek play has been transferred to Civil War-era Maryland, a border state and thus the most likely locale for the background story of the tragedy. Two brothers, sons of Oedipus (yes, that Oedipus), fight each other to the death, one brother killing the other and then dying from a bullet wound. Creon, the governor of Maryland (Edie Bishop '00) has declared that the Union Army brother will...