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Geron Iakovos, Greek Orthodox Archbishop
Shigehisa Kuriyama ’77, a renowned expert on the history of Chinese and Greek medicine, will join the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations next year as the Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History...
Kuriyama is perhaps best known for his 1999 book, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine, which Mendelsohn called a “tour de force...
Perhaps then it is more than a coincidence that the first brand-name whistle-blower was a woman. In Greek mythology, Cassandra had the gift of prophecy. She correctly predicted the outcome of many events, warning the Trojans, for example, in “The Aeneid,” against accepting a wooden horse as a “gift” from their Greek opponents. However, when Cassandra spurned the god Apollo as a lover, he retaliated by making anyone who heard her prophecies believe they were lies. It was mostly men who disbelieved her, leading inevitably to disaster...
What is true is that some of the students are making their mark in ways that will never draw much public attention. On the first Tuesday night after Easter, Greek InterVarsity president Peter Howell went door to door in his house, Sigma Nu, inviting his brothers to Bible study, as he has done every week for the past two years. Just two of the 70 brothers accepted the offer, but that doesn't mean the rest haven't been affected by Howell. "In the biggest meathead frat, he's himself. He's 100%. And no matter what...