About

The CAMPVS began in 2004 as CAMPVS MAWRTIVS, a joint ven­ture by a small group of male grad­u­ate stu­dents at Bryn Mawr Col­lege intent on lit­tle more than amus­ing them­selves. Eric and Den­nis remain, while Coke has moved on. We’ve rolled Sarah’s blog into this one as well and wel­comed her to the fold.

The blog’s orig­i­nal sub­ti­tle, “Male Grad­u­ate Stu­dents: un-serious in terms of stud­ies since 1931,” was inspired by a piece titled “Fun With a Cap­i­tal PhD” pub­lished in the Bi-College News (the joint stu­dent paper of Bryn Mawr and Haver­ford Col­leges). The piece included a state­ment “ques­tion­ing the seri­ous­ness of the male grad stu­dents in terms of stud­ies,” the impli­ca­tion being that we chose Bryn Mawr Col­lege to scope out the under­grad­u­ates. (Bryn Mawr Col­lege admit­ted its first male grad­u­ate stu­dent in 1931.)

‘The Cam­pus Mawr­tius’ was just a pun on the Cam­pus Mar­tius (a spelling which will for­ever look wrong to me now). For­tu­itously, how­ever, Latin CAMPVS also con­veys a few notions that fit nicely with my ideas for this site, and we can enu­mer­ate them right from the Oxford Latin Dic­tio­nary: a place of assem­bly, sport, and exer­cise (2b&c, 3), and a writer’s sub­ject mat­ter (5b)—in our case clas­sics and related disciplines.

That’s what the CAMPVS is today: a place for us to work out ideas, have some fun, stay con­nected, and write about sub­jects within our cho­sen field.

We hope you enjoy our con­tri­bu­tion and con­sider join­ing the conversation.