MORE NEWS FROM AROUND THE COLLEGES

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DePauw University
DePauw now offers a minor in archaeology.

Two new courses in Classics were piloted in the spring of 2002: Ancient History in Film (PEDAR FOSS) & Greek and Roman Law (DAVID GUINEE).

SHAWN O'BRYHIM & DAVID GUINEE will be conducting a term in Rome & Naples in January 2003.

Hope College
In October 2002, four Latin teachers (including one alumna) who teach at the primary and secondary levels came to campus for a Panel Discussion on "Teaching Latin in the Schools".

JACK NYENHUIS, emeritus professor of Classics, accepted in summer of 2002 the post of director of the Albertus C. Van Raalte Institute, a research organization dedicated to the history of the Holland (Michigan) area. He remains well-connected to Classics, however. His book Myth and the Creative Process: Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus will be published in December by the press of Wayne State University, and an exhibit of Ayrton's work (including many pieces from Jack's personal collection) will be held at Hope's DePree Art Gallery in January-February 2003.

ALBERT. A. BELL, JR., classicist and chair of the History Department, has begun a new series of detective fiction. The first of the cases "from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger" (with Tacitus-as-Watson) is All Roads Lead to Murder (High Country Publishers, 2002).

Illinois State University
At the start of the fall semester, Media Relations at the University featured JANICE SIEGEL in a press-release. The article notes that Latin is the only language that has been taught throughout the school's existence, and that Janice "arrived on campus last year brimming with enthusiasm and energy and committed to 'taking it to the streets'."

Illinois Wesleyan University
NANCY SULTAN, who, along with Janice Siegel at ISU, has joined our organization as an honorary member, reports that Classical Studies at Illinois Wesleyan has a new name: "Greek and Roman Studies" (GRS). The program is, jointly with History, conducting a search to fill a position in Ancient History.

Macalester College
A January 2002 study-trip to Rome included 14 students and one alumna.

A field-trip to the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts is planned for spring 2003, to visit the Eternal Egypt exhibition.

Oberlin College
Visiting lecturers in the fall term included: Mark Buchan (Princeton) on riddles in Homer & Herodotus, Carolyn Dewald (California) with a presentation entitled "Paying Attention: Historiography, Ancient and Mondern", and Tamara Chin, the winner of the 2002 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize in Classics, speaking on "Heterotexuality: Sappho (31) meets Shijing (Book of Songs 1)".

Spring 2003 will bring Gregory Nagy (Harvard) to campus for the Charles Beebe Martin Lectures.

Ohio Wesleyan University
DONALD LATEINER maintained a busy schedule of lecturing and writing. Highlights include an article on Apuleius in Transactions of the American Philological Association (2001) and another on Sarpedon in Colby Quarterly. He spoke on "Pity in Greek Historiograpy" at a conference at Rutgers, organized by Corey Brennan (a former student) & RACHEL STERNBERG of the College of Wooster
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BRAD COOK travelled to the University of Neijmegen in May 2002, to speak at a Plutarch conference. He also did work at the Vatican Library on a fragmentary life of Philip of Macedon.

Saint Olaf College
In March 2002, 17 students were initiated into Eta Sigma Phi, the national Classics honor society.

In addition to pursuing their own research & publishing articles, members of the Classics Department were busy serving as outside evaluators for other Classics programs. ANNE GROTON helped review the department at DePauw, and JIM MAY did the same for Grinnell College. Jim May also bought a 1942 fire engine (red, of course!), which he hoped would serve the department well in the annual homecoming parade, for which it could be decorated with a sign proclaiming "Get fired up for Classics!"

JON BRUSS & CHRISTOPHER BRUNELLE have joined the department.

Wabash College
The college's Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts might be a venue for publishing your essays on the relevance & efficacy of the liberal arts in the 21st century.

College of Wooster
Ohio Wesleyan's DONALD LATEINER visited in the spring of 2002 to give a presentation entitled "Street Life: Honor and Insult in Ancient Athens". The spring semester also included a field trip to the Cleveland Museum of Art and a staged reading of The Bacchae by students & professors.

In the fall, Christopher Pelling (Oxford) gave a guest lecture.

Nearly 20 Classics students are housed together in the designated "Classics Suite" of Luce Hall, and a lively "Classics Table" is held every Friday during the noon hour.

Welcome to new Classics faculty JOSEPHINE SHAYA.