McGill Classics Students' Association

Every year, the Classics Department puts on a play under the auspices of Professor Kozak. In 2011, it was Aeschylus’ Agamemnon; in 2012, it was Euripides’ Hippolytos. This year will complete our hat trick of tragedians with Sophocles’ Philoktetes, which will go up in February 2013.

If you’d like to get involved in the Classics Play, it’s a great time to start. The first translation group of the year will meet today at 3:30 on the sixth floor of the Leacock Building, and on Thursday we’ll have our first production meeting at the same time and place.

If you have any questions, you can look at the Classics Play web page or email Lizzy Ten-Hove or Professor Kozak.

Welcome back, classicists!

I hope you’re all ready for a marvelous year: you have, I am sure, all noticed the particularly excellent array of course offerings for the year, what with the return of most of our history professors and the quantity of Homer in the offing. The CSA has many things up its sleeve for you outside of the classroom, so keep an eye out for announcements on our listserv, our Facebook page, and, of course, this website.

Our first adventure of the year will be next Friday, September the 14th. At 4pm we will join battle against our dear friends and rivals, the History Students’ Association, in a game of human chess at Parc Émilie-Gamelin (near Berri-UQAM). As we are technically one department, perhaps this can be styled a civil war?

If it rains, the game will be postponed until Saturday the 15th.

It’s that time of year! The CSA is holding its annual elections for executive positions. It’s an excellent time to become involved with the CSA, whether as an exec or a member at large. To nominate yourself, send your name, the position you want to run for, and a brief statement as to why you think you would be a good candidate.

Nominations are due by midnight on March 28th. You can send them to classics.students.mcgill (at) gmail.com. Elections will be held a week later, on April 4th—stay tuned for more details, and come vote even if you aren’t running for a position!

The positions are as follows:

President : Runs the show, coordinates things between the CSA, the AUS, the Department of History and Classical Studies, and basically is in charge of more stuff than I can name in one listserv. Responsibilities include: attending departmental meetings, delegating, organizing the Colloquium. Should have leadership skills, organization and love writing/responding to emails.

VP Finance : “oversees the fiscal management of CSA operations.” Basically is in charge of money, budgeting and writing funding applications. VP Finances should be organized and good with math (obviously).

VP Internal : is the liason between the CSA and the department/profs. Also assists the VP Events in planning events, helps with table bookings and fundraisers.

VP External: attends AUS Council meetings, is the liason between the CSA and the AUS. Should not have things to do on Wednesday nights and enjoy student politics!

VP Events : is also in charge of events, of both an academic and social nature. Examples: movie nights, pub nights, anything you can think of! VP Events should be motivated and creative!

VP Communications : writes the listserv in a hilarious, pithy manner; helps with other means of methods of CSA publicity, ex. posters, website, facebook page, etc. Should love puns and dorky Classics jokes.

Secretary: Attends and takes minutes at every CSA meeting. Helps out when needed in all areas of the CSA.