Editor,
After reading Kate Siegfried's letter in the Tuesday's Daily Lobo, I was honestly kind of upset because I have been in three of Monica Cyrino's classics classes, and I have enjoyed every one.
Two of the classics classes I took were co-taught by Cyrino with Richard Berthold. I think that as a teacher, she uses every skill that is applicable for demonstrating a more in-depth perception of what Mediterranean life was like during the days of the Greeks and Romans.
I personally appreciate the representation, through classic literature and art, of a female voice, which from my experience, is pretty rare.
As a senior, I have never taken a class a UNM that kept a higher attendance rate then the Greek and Roman civilizations classes. The acting and dramatizing of classic Mediterranean life is not only enjoyable, but enlightening compared to the common lecture "snoozefest" in many college classes.
As far as sexuality goes, why does a modern woman demonstrating her sexuality openly threaten so many individuals? Sex sells and, when taken into the context of the sexually-charged classics of Greek and Roman culture, Cyrino and Berthold do an excellent job of not only teaching both the history through text, but also cultural history through semantics, art, music and different forms of classic literature.
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A college education should be fun sometimes. I have appreciated her classes time after time and judging from the filled lecture halls, semester after semester, I am sure that many others have and will appreciate Monica Cyrino's classics classes.
Jeremy Toulouse
Senior political science student
