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in a Sisyphean struggle to roll his prized ball of dung up a hill.
The nobility of human existence, as recognized by the pre-Christian Greeks (whose surviving writings provide our record of man's early thought on these matters), lies in the pursuit of good, or of virtue, in the consciousness that this is a Sisyphean undertaking, and that the fates of man and history are tragic.
The college tries to instill its students with the professional skills of Western journalism and the concepts of a free and adversarial press--a Sisyphean task in many ways.
 
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