NEWS FLASH:

Trilingual Entry Wins Greek and Latin Haiku Contest!

Wooster, OH.  April 28, 2005.

The College of Wooster's classics students achieved another victory in
the Department of Classics' famous Greek and Latin Contests this week.

Despite heavy competition from other classics students and even from
faculty members of the German Department, Rhian Stotts' trilingual
English, Greek, and Latin entry won the day.

The English version of Rhian's Haiku reads as follows:

In the spring morning
The showers flow from the clouds,
And they catch the light.

Rhian reported that the contest prize, inner peace, came to her
immediately, and seemed to originate from the divine essence of being.
"I feel inner peace.  What more can I say? It's the second to last
week of the semester, and I am actually feeling inner peace."

Rhian also won a book of her choice, which the Classics Department will
order for her. "Inner peace and summer reading.  Martha Stewart had to
go to jail to get this combination, and yet look at me! I'm so lucky!"

Rhian's well-deserved victory was won against heavy competition. Runners
up were Jessica Hahs, who submitted a Greek Haiku on the topic of life's
long road, and Patrick Chrosniak and Caecilia Brooks, whose Latin Haiku
also addressed the topic of life and death.  Thus, for example,
Patrick's entry (in English translation) reads as follows:
I was standing in a field
I love the beauty of nature;
I was crushed by a fig tree.

The German Department at the College of Wooster also entered the
contest, and their entry received serious consideration.  But Rhian's
entry overwhelmed their Latin contribution with its display of
linguistic pyrotechnics.

Members of the international panel of judges agreed that this contest
was the hardest one to judge. "All of the entries were excellent, and
many made it into the final round. We were beginning to think we
wouldn't be able to decide, and some of the judges were starting to
feel considerable anxiety. But then we thought: are we really going to
get this upset about a contest for inner peace?  It just didn't make
sense. So we reestablished our composure and the Stotts entry emerged as
the winner."

The Greek and Latin Haiku Contest will be the last of the Classics
Department's contests for this year. Suggestions for next year's contest
can be submitted in person or incognito to any member of the Classics
Department.