| Millsaps
graduate David Majure, B.S. 1997, tells of waking at 5:30 each morning,
riding in a truck along bumpy roads to the second largest Mayan archeological
ruins in the Yucatan, and working at the site into the late afternoon alongside
Mayan descendants. Sometimes he packed a lunch, though as often as
not he would share a meal with the Mayans, a corn and bean tortilla and
a little Coke or water to wash it down, then back to careful excavations.
By night, he slept in a small house, comfortably perched in a hammock,
reading or dreaming of the weekend during which he might jaunt off to Belize
or some other exotic Central American locale. It was real Indiana
Jonesing, he says, minus Nazis and the Ark of the Covenant. Of course,
for David Majure, it was also college. |
Millsaps
has never been your ordinary college. Routinely ranked as one of
the best liberal arts colleges in the country, it should come as no surprise
to discover Millsaps students trekking about the Yucatan like something
out of a J. Peterman catalogue. Millsaps prides itself on equipping
its students with the best education possible and will go to almost any
length to get the job done. Let other schools pack seventy or more
warm bodies into a freshman literature course to be taught by a graduate
assistant, Millsaps does things differently. Its pedagogical principles
are intimate and enduring — Millsaps believes in putting great students
together with great professors. In the case of the Millsaps Interdisciplinary
Center for Cultural American Studies (MICAS) program, the pedagogy can
sometimes be adventurous as well.
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