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...didn’t make sense to continue to require faculty who are proposing courses as departmental alternates to guarantee they’ll be given again, because we’re moving into a transition into another program,” Lewis said. Richard F. Thomas, professor of Greek and Latin, said the expansion is necessary because professors are less willing to produce new classes for the Core, creating a “crunch in terms of available courses” for students. He added that he has heard no objections from faculty to the charge set forth...
...Reilly, co-founder of the local Súgán Theatre Company, and produced by Allison B. Kline ’09, the play is this year’s Visiting Director’s Project. Zimmerman’s adaptation is a compilation of ten ancient Greek and Roman myths, some of which were taken from the original Ovid collection and others which were included because of their theatrical possibilities. She then rewrote the stories to include water as an underlying theme. “My original idea for the show was myths-in-water and the script...
...Greek tragedian Sophocles placed his mythical protagonist Oedipus in Thebes, and later Colonus, but never in Florida. However, modern playwright and actress Maureen Angelos—member of 16-year old theater group the Five Lesbian Brothers and co-author of the play “Oedipus at Palm Springs”—doesn’t give a damn about Sophocles. According to Angelos, her goal is “dismantling the patriarchy one show at a time.” Angelos, accompanied by the rest of the Five Lesbian Brothers, and Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver?...
...eventually leaves with an assortment of black clothing and a large white teddy bear. She intends to cut off its feet and use them to elevate the shoulders of the dress. “It’s the idea of ‘metropolis’ being a Greek paradigm—I’m making Grecian-inspired clothing with rigidly structured aspects to echo urban form,” she says. The bear smiles glassily, ignorant that it will be sacrificed in the pursuit of fashion. The next morning, with less than four hours to go before...
...addition, I suggested that universities should require students to take a semester course surveying Greek and Roman history, one surveying European history, and one surveying American history; a semester course examining the principles of American government and one examining the principles of economics; a semester course in biology, and one in physics; a semester course comparing Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; a semester course studying the history, literature, or religion of a non-Western civilization; and four semester courses in a foreign language (or the demonstration of the equivalent level of competence...