By Arthur Wang | ReporterIn between Lysol having to warn against injecting their products into people to treat the virus, an ever-tenser political environment in the midst of these events and the fact you may not have left the house in weeks, it can be all too easy to feel like the sky is falling.While there’s nothing that can really alleviate those feelings easily, it’s sometimes easier to focus on the short-term than to worry about the longer, more distant events that may or may not occur. It’s better to take care of the things you can handle right now…
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By Arthur Wang | ReporterGiven the current circumstances, many of us have likely been inside our homes for the past few weeks and will likely be cooped up inside weeks into the future.We may have already stocked up on canned goods and taken all the hand sanitizer and toilet paper we can carry, but there’s also the question of what to do with all that time you have now that you can’t go outside.Yes, there’s the internet, but eventually catching up on video games or binging another series on Netflix will begin to lose its appeal.So, what else can you…
By Arthur Wang | ReporterWith the recent COVID-19 pandemic and some of the actions people have taken (such as hoarding toilet paper and hand sanitizer), I think it’s more important than ever to learn about one thing: economics.See, economics isn’t just the management of money and numbers, but it’s also the management of resources and decisions. It can help ensure that you take into account all the risks and benefits an action will bring—whether you’re deciding when and how you should go to the store to what you should buy when you’re there. Those are both decisions we face on…
Arthur Wang | ReporterKathryn Topper, a professor at the University of Washington and author of The Imagery of the Athenian Symposium, gave a lecture entitled “Herakles and Atlas at the Symposium” on Monday in the Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center. Topper’s lecture focused on a pair of pottery pieces and the role the images played in the titular symposium as comedy. The first image she presented depicted Herakles running from Atlas, holding the golden apples he needed to gather as one of his 12 labors. The second piece of pottery showed Herakles as he held up the sky, facing a stool…
Arthur Wang | ReporterThis summer, the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project will begin a season of excavations, looking to uncover a medieval castle and a number of tombs. St. Louis senior Emily Varley has been working on the project since the summer of 2017. She plans to return this year to finish her research and to get a better understanding of the landscape through the use of drone photography.“My project is aiming to understand how the medieval fortifications and habitation zones is a social space, and what are the implications of the site and the social interactions that happened in…
By Arthur Wang | ReporterOn Jan. 31 this year, a YouTuber known simply as SsethTzeentach released a video about a game called “SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising”. He thoroughly enjoyed the game, commenting that “Every single run is complete madness.”“Complete madness” also describes what happened to the game shortly afterwards. Within three days, over 600,000 people had watched the review, and even before that mark was hit, many of the video’s viewers were eager to give the game a whirl. It wasn’t long before the game’s global chat was filled with Sseth’s signature intro phrase, “Hey hey people.” The number of people…
By Arthur Wang | Reporter The Paul L. Foster Success Center’s tutoring center provides students with assistance in passing classes or understanding material they have trouble with. Melanie Briscoe, tutoring manager for the success center, said in addition to walk-in tutoring, the Success Center also offers appointments, group tutoring and a Youtube channel where videos on four different courses can be found. Tutors can benefit from the tutoring center as well, whether it’s from improving their own skills to earning experience in teaching. Houston senior Bailey Sloan said she mainly tutors other students in Greek, Latin, and German. “The basics…
By Arthur Wang | Reporter Of the many things today we do to occupy our free time — whether that’s video games, getting into arguments online, or watching cat video compilations at 1:00 a.m. — a lot of these activities tend to just be time-fillers or distractions. Instead of spending yet another hour watching stuff other people have made or virtually shouting at someone, why not try writing something?Yes, yes, I know. There’s already so much writing that we students are required to do in order to pass our classes, whether those are essays that need to be done in…