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Professor Hua-Mei Chang doing a bamboo pole dance with freshman Caitlin Morse. Isabella Smart and Anna Ranberg, two sophomore students taking Chinese, moving the bamboo poles to the rhythm.

Lawn games draw students to the quad

Krystina Slack October 7, 2022

What if you could find a piñata, a bocce ball, kubb, bamboo pole dancing and amazing snacks all in the same place? Students who happened upon the quad last week were in luck, because these were just some...

Junior John Do takes flight as he hopes to score a victory in the long jump event of the Language Olympics.

Collegia Classica launches Language Olympics

Krystina Slack May 6, 2022

On April 30, the Collegia Classica club put together Augustana’s very first Language Olympics. The Language Olympics created a place for cultural groups and clubs to come together in a friendly competition...

The Etruscans: A forgotten civilization impacting us today

Krystina Slack March 11, 2022

On Thursday, March 3, Dr. Rachel Horner Brackett gave a presentation about the Etruscan civilization titled “Etruscans at the Crossroads: Lost Cities of Tuscany.” The Etruscans were an ancient civilization...

Racial equity evolving in Classics

Racial equity evolving in Classics

Connie Krupa November 12, 2021

Racial equity in classics, specifically in television shows and movies, has been vastly underrepresented throughout the years. The United States has a history of oppressing and disadvantaging certain groups.  Dr....

Translating Classics to Mandarin

Etta brooks November 5, 2021

Translating from Latin to Mandarin is a crucial yet difficult task, given the linguistic unfamiliarity between Latin and Chinese languages. Dr. Jinyu Liu, professor at Depauw University, presented the...

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