New Co-Consuls for 2012-2013!

The UWCSA fondly welcomes their incoming Co-Consuls for the 2012-2013 academic year, Myla Held and Rémi Fontaine! Congratulations you two!

Classics Colloquium!

     You are hereby formally invited to participate in our 3rd annual UWCSA Classics Colloquium on Saturday March 3rd. As in previous years, we warmly encourage you to come and speak a little on your own research, or if you prefer, to simply attend and enjoy. The event will run from 10:00am to approx. 2:00pm in room 3D01, and refreshments will be provided. Afterwards there will be an excursion to Garbonzo's Pizza Pub, which is right next door.

     If you do wish to make a presentation, please submit an abstract to uwclassics@gmail.com by Feb. 27th at the latest. The room is power point friendly, for those of us who are technologically inclined. The presentations will be max 15 minutes, with a 5 minute question period.

Hope to see you there!

TOGA SOCIAL!!

Dear everyone,

     please be aware that the UWCSA is holding a Toga Social on Feb. 4th at the Bulman Centre, and also that you should come. 50% of all profits will go toward the Children's Hospital Foundation. Party starts at 9:00, that band at 10:00.

Tickets are 10$ and available from any UWCSA representative, as well as at the UWCSA Infobooth.

U of W Classics department scores big at annual AHEPA banquet!

Our very own Alistair Mowat and Devon Berofe have both won AHEPA scholarships totaling $2000 and $2500 respectively.

You guys are great representatives of our department and very deserved of these awards.

Congratulations to you both!

Latin Dictionary Anyone?

Here's a little something for those of you struggling through Latin and getting sick of spending so much time looking words up in your dictionary ...

It's a Latin dictionary program called Words.  Such a time saver, and generally very reliable. Just click the link and follow the download instructions.

A big thanks to Alex for finding this one!

If anyone ever finds an equivalent program for Greek - let me know!

Fall Convocation Today!

I would like to extend sincere felicitations and congratulations to all those graduating today, but especially to our beloved former co-consul, Melina Sturym! Hooray!

Zombie Walk 2011

Hey everybody! Guess what! The Classics Students' Association is going to rock the Zombie Walk this year - in Classical costumes! - on Friday Oct. 14th! The walk starts at 8:30 at Stephen Juba Park (on Waterfront Drive, just North of the ballpark), but we're going to rendez-vous first in the Common Room (4G07) at 6:00 for the putting-on of make-up and costumes, then again at 7:00 at the King's Head, and at the park for 8:00! Feel free to join us at any point in the proceedings. Speaking of proceeding, here's a link to the Zombie Walk Facebook page, to which you can proceed in order to find a map of the route which will be followed by the procession (among other info): check it out

Note, we'll be hitting Shannon's for our own after party, because we're more fun than a pack of stinkin' normal zombies anyway! Woo!
 
p.s. - In case you were wondering, the Latin for "Braaains!" is "Cereeeebra!"