March 28, 2003

Students Team Up for a Course on Ancient Sports

By MEGAN ROONEY

The largest course at Hobart and William Smith Colleges this semester, dwarfing all others by at least 200 students, is in the classics department -- a department that counts no seniors and only three juniors among its majors.

So, who are the 270 students filling the lecture hall? Many of them are athletes. When Lynn Sawlivich, an assistant professor of classics, offered "Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome" this semester, he says he had no idea he would get such a

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