“Three months after college ended, I woke up yet again far from home. This time, China captivated my present. Following graduation, I decided to really learn this tricky language called Mandarin and committed to a year teaching English in Shanghai. What a formative year it turned out to be, full of long nights spent studying and early days trying to convince five-year-olds that I, a foreigner, had something interesting to say.”

—Courtney Olsen (BAFLL Three Languages 2012)

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Article from the Newark Post on the 1977 Fire in Sigma Nu, now “Jastak-Burgess Hall”

Posted on March 18, 2016

The Newark Post recently reprinted an article on the 1977 fire in the fraternity house, Sigma Nu. The building is now called “Jastak-Burgess Hall” and it is home to the Deparment of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures:

http://www.newarkpostonline.com/blogs/history/article_540466bd-54b5-5520-a862-55e4bafffbc6.html?mode=story

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