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CLASSICS & COMPUTERS
Collaboration among our departments can be
aided by technology -- as the "Sunoiksis" project of the
Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) demonstrates. Here are some
initial thoughts
by classicists of our own consortia.
John Gruber-Miller, Cornell College
(jgruber-miller@cornellcollege.edu)
Attending the Sunokisis Summer Seminar: Medieval Latin -- Or, How I Spent
(Part of) Summer Vacation
Many of you may have heard of the Sunoikisis
Project from Kenny Morrell, Hal Haskell or others, perhaps at the
last meeting of ACM/GLCA Classicists at Lake Forest College. The Sunoikisis
Project is a kind of virtual Classics Department that links small, liberal
arts colleges from the Associated Colleges of the South in order to pool
together resources and to provide better opportunities for Classical Studies
students through technology. Joint projects have focused on areas of the
Classics curriculum that have been underrepresented, such as an introductory
course in archaeology and advanced language courses for majors. John Quinn
(Hope College) and I attended this summer’s Latin seminar expecting
to be inundated with technology, but instead we were treated to learning
more about a subject that I had little familiarity, Medieval Latin, and
getting to know some wonderful Classicists. continue
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Daniel Sack, Associated Colleges of the Midwest
Report from the Collaboration Planning Meeting
(February 22, 2002)
Present:
Neil Bernstein (Wooster)
John Gruber-Miller (Cornell)
David Guinee (DePauw)
Tom Sienkewicz (Monmouth)
Daniel Sack (ACM) Recently, classics professors from ACM and GLCA have been
talking about strengthening their collaboration, particularly in their
teaching. A few people came together in Chicago to brainstorm future collaboration,
especially connected work that would use technology to connect their students.
They stated the need for collaboration. continue
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| St. Olaf College was pleased to welcome in June 2002 a new Provost:
the Classics Department's own JIM MAY.
TOM FALKNER of Wooster College finished a three-year term as Dean
of the Faculty in the summer of 2002 -- only to be appointed the
Acting Vice-President for Academic Affairs for the 2002-2003 school
year.
A senior Classics major at Ohio Wesleyan, JENNI LEWTON, was awarded
a Manson A. Stewart Scholarship from the Classical Association of
the Middle West and South (CAMWS).
At the annual spring meeting of CAMWS, Monmouth's TOM SIENKEWICZ
was honored with an ovatio for his labors in the classroom,
to the Association, and for promoting the study of Latin nationwide.
Here are the words with which Jim May (giving his inaugural address
as CAMWS' ovator) saluted him:
Laudemus denique virum -- "virum" dixi?
-- immo vero heroa, qui solus tantos labores tantasque aerumnas
in docendis discipulis suis et in lingua Latina fovenda molitus
est ut nomen suum, quamquam longissimum difficllimumque, in nostris
omnium domibus factum sit notissimum! Ille,ut adulescens, classicam
semitam elegit de qua numquam declinavit. Factus philosophiae doctor
in terra Mariae, se contulit ad caput re publicae, ubi plurimos
discipulos duo lustra docuit. Postea arcessitus est Hercules noster
ad parvum collegium situm in civitate quae erat terra illius praesidis
qui delevit servitium servosque liberavit. Hic amor ei, haec patria
est! Quid dicam de praestantissimis discipulis eius, de scriptis
multis et variis, de itineribus diversas in partes orbis terrarum,
de multis coronis docendi receptis, de laboribus plurimis susceptis
pro Societate nostra? Hic heros praeclarus, suis manibus paenesolis
et paucis collegis adiuvantibus, in suo collegio omnes res classicas
discipulis suis tradit; Societati nostrae multos annos vicarius
praesidis civitatis suae et princeps laborantium ad linguam Latinam
fovenda servivit. Ne multa: ubicumque noster accedit, classicorum
studiorum amorem accendit, accensum conservat, conservatum propagat.
Plaudite, quaeso, THOMAS J. SIENKEWICZ.
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