Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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Both the beginning and the end of Ripon’s 1988-89 academic year were marked by the Graeco-Roman heritage of rhetoric and politics. In early autumn students held their own notable assembly in front of Middle Hall to protest certain administrative policies, and the May Commencement theme, The World of the Media. was but a late twentieth- century version of an issue defined by the Greeks: How do words lead and mislead us? The problem is epitomized in the derivation of the English words grammar and glamour from the same Greek root meaning 'write'; and it is formally elaborated in such philosophical treatises as Plato’s Gorgias. Thus the Graeco-Roman heritage continues to have a lively existence at Ripon. as it should at a liberal arts college. The new flourish this year is that after a period of dormancy in part-time status, the Classical languages. Latin and Greek, have been restored to full-time status in the Ripon curriculum. Thanks to the Marie Zarwell Uihlein Chair in Classical Studies, conceived by the enthusiastic vision of President Stott and endowed by the sensitive generosity of Mrs. Uihlein, Ripon students can again examine the words of the Greeks and Romans without the medium of a translator. All of us can now without any intermediary continue such inquiry initiated by the Greeks as. How and what can I know and believe? How and what do I communicate? How and what do I live? Eddie R. Lowry Jr. Associate Professor and Uihlein Chair in Classical Studies

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