Highlights of the Quarterly, Fall 2002
Nature in the Balance
Hearing a pack of gray wolves howling in the northern Rocky Mountains is an experience that is nothing short of miraculous. The sound is like that of an ocean wave or an ancient bell, swelling and reminiscing until it fades. The low collective tone of the adults balloons outward as it echoes farther from its source while pups and yearlings yip and howl in a manner that is best described as "jubilant."
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Translating Boethius
Although I am a classicist, I am a little uncomfortable with the term. While I certainly teach the languages and literatures that this term typically refers to, I prefer to think of myself as a Latinist, a much more inclusive label. My love of Latin is omnivorous and indiscriminate; the Latin language itself, more than any one of its particular manifestations, is what most interests me. This love knows no boundaries of time or genre, and in the course of a moderately long career I have been called on to translate any number of things; accordingly, I have been pleased to discover that Latin is truly one of the helping professions.
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Problem Solving in Thirteen Weeks
Ask Deb Fahey and Kathy Morgan to describe a typical day in their new science course, Ponds to Particles, and just as they catch each other's eye, they laugh. Loudly. "This course was an experiment,"said Fahey, an instructor of biology.
And tha's exactly what it was meant to be. Welcome to the 21st-century answer to science education for non-majors.
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