JUNE-JULY 2003 NEWS AND EVENTS

1. LEVINE AND PAULSON LEAD TOUR OF GREECE

From May 23-June 14, Prof. Daniel Levine and lecturer George Paulson are leading a study tour through Greece. This three-week study tour of Greece will focus on significant works of art and sites relevant to the history and culture of Greece. To this end, the tour will visit important museum collections, and archaeological sites in Athens and Attica, the Peloponnese, Boeotia, the islands of Crete, Euboea and Melos, and the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. These lucky students will encounter healing sanctuaries, pan-Hellenic game sites, Mycenaean citadels, Minoan palaces, Byzantine churches, sacred caves, oracular sites, fortifications, battlefields, and religious pilgrimage sites, such as Eleusis. For more information about this year's tour, visit Prof. Levine's website. The tour is usually offered every other year, so please visit the site if you think you might be interested for 2005.

2. CLASSICAL STUDIES HAS RECORD NUMBER OF MAJORS

Classical Studies graduated five majors at the Fulbright ceremony this May: Mara Dabrishus, Jackie Mahaffey, Tony Nguyen, Nathan Sharpe, and Spencer Watson. Congratulations to these fine students! At this moment, there are 37 majors in Classical Studies at the University of Arkansas. This record number of majors should make us all proud.

3. U OF A ETA SIGMA PHI TEAM WINS NATIONAL COMPETITION

The University of Arkansas sent ten student delegates to the University of Oklahoma in April for the 75th annual convention of Eta Sigma Phi, the national honorary society for students who excel in the study of Ancient Greek, Latin, and Classics.

The U of A fielded two teams in the CERTAMEN, a college-bowl competition in knowledge of the Classics. Both Arkansas teams defeated their opponents in the first round, and one U of A team went completely undefeated, winning the competition. This is the second time in five years that an Arkansas team has won this national title. The members of the winning team included Classical Studies students Glen Travis Blakney, Rachel Bushkuhl, Jason Connolly, and Nathan Sharpe. For pictures and general information on Eta Sigma Phi, go to our chapter website.

In addition, the national delegates elected U of A Classical Studies major Aaron Randolph to the office of MEGAS GRAMMATEUS (national secretary). The 2003 U of A Classics T-shirt, designed by Classics major Jacob Lewis, won second prize in the national T-shirt contest. The shirt includes quotations from Vergil and Theocritus (in Latin and Greek), and an image from a 5th-century BCE Greek vase (Apollo and Laocoon).