Vol. III · No. 1 · October 25, 1996

From the Chair

The summer did not pass quietly for the faculty and students of the Classics Department. For most of July the old offices in the Education Building were a clutter of boxes, cartons and tape. On August 5 the moving vans rolled up and two weeks later the Department was open for business again in its new, temporary quarters on the ground floor of the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Building. Lab coats are the new look in Classics. But our faculty and staff will be able to put their experience to good use in three years time when the Department moves to its permanent home.

Plans are under way for the new Humanities Building on the northern side of the Norlin Quadrangle, just east of Woodbury. This is the first construction in over 50 years specifically designed for Humanities, a fitting home for the Classics Department. Joining Classics in the new building will be the departments of French and Italian, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Religious Studies..

But the Classics Department is building on other fronts as well. This year we welcome another new colleague, J. Bradford Churchill, who comes to us from the University of Illinois, where he received the PhD last year (see article below). In addition, the Department is involved in the formation

The Flatirons and Old Main, adjacent to the site of the new Humanities Building

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for-mation of a new Center for the Humanities and the Arts. This Center, which may eventually be housed in the new Humanities Building, will serve as a focal point for the scholarly and creative work of all humanities and arts faculty and both graduate and undergradu-ate students. The Classics Department is participating in a national search for someone to serve as Chair of Comparative Literature and the first Director of the new Center. In addition, the Classics Department is conducting a search for a new assistant professor.

This is an exciting time for the Classics Department, which now boasts one of the largest under-graduate programs in the nation. This year opens on a note of promise.

 Latin Program On Line

The home page for CU's Latin Program is now up, running and gathering compliments from our Beginning Latin students who use it to find out information about course offerings and Latin grammar. Its address on the internet is:

The most popular feature of the web site is the practice noun paradigms that accompany each of the sixteen chapters of the Oxford Latin Course, Part I. The nouns chosen for each chapter teach new vocabulary and new cases as students proceed through the text.

The Latin Program Home Page was designed by Barbara Hill, Director of the Latin Program with support from the University's Instructional Technology Resource Center. Other course material is planned for the Internet in the Spring. We urge any of you who may wish to brush up on your noun declensions to check out our new page!

Other computing news concerns Prof. John Gibert's course on Women in An-tiquity. The Home Page for this course has moved to:

Prof. Gibert's class was recently featured by local TV news on Channel 4 in Denver. The word is out that CU's oldest academic department is leading the way in innovative teaching