The College of Wooster Open Works The oV ice: 1991-2000 "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection 11-19-1993 The oW oster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1993-11-19 Wooster Voice Editors Follow this and additional works at: https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000 Recommended Citation Editors, Wooster Voice, "The oosW ter Voice (Wooster, OH), 1993-11-19" (1993). The Voice: 1991-2000. 78. https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1991-2000/78 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the "The oV ice" Student Newspaper Collection at Open Works, a service of The oC llege of Wooster Libraries. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oV ice: 1991-2000 by an authorized administrator of Open Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume CX, Issue 11 The student newspaper of the College ofWooster Friday, November 19, 1993 WoosTER WO (GE Feature Classics lecture focuses on ancient Athens r - Bj CHTTRALEKHA ZUTSHI Athenian citizenry. Supervision of j these slaves could be extremely loose, Thomas R. Martin, the Jeremiah and even though superficially the sta- W.O'CcjnnorProfcsscx in Classics at tus of the public slave could not be the College of the Holy Cross, pre-sente- da better than that of the free citizen of ' slide lecture entitled "Slaves, low status, these slaves were some- Police, and Counterfeiting in Classi- times better off than the free citizens. cal Athens," this Monday. "The certifier of coins, a public J His visit was sponsored by de- the slave,"Martmsaid,Mexerrisedapower partment of classical studies and me over the property ofcitizens by virtue office of the vice president for aca- of the task he performed." He made demic affairs. the decision about whether a particu- A healthy alternative Martin, who holds degrees from lar coin was authentic, counterfeit or page 5 Princeton and Harvard, has been in- ir an imitation. strumental in the creation of the Per- The certifier thus had to have very seus Project, a computer-base- d tool special technical skills to ensure his including texts, images, diagrams and credibility among the citizenry. "Be- plans which is used widely for re- cause his judgment ruled, there was search and instruction in Classical no practical way to determine mat the A&E Greek history. The program is in- decision of the certifier was correct." stalled at Andrews library. photo by VOICE PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF According to Martin, "this diffi- Martin has held leaching posts at a Left to right: Thomas Falkner, Stanton Hales and Thomas Martin culty of reviewing the exercise of number educational institutions, of participate in Monday's Classics lecture in Lean Lecture Room. power by the certifier went against a including Harvard University and fundamental principle of Athenian Pomona College, as well as being a nian democracy and Greek coinage. The certifier of coins in Classical democracy, which was that all deci- fellow at the American School of Addressing a packed room, Martin Athens was a public slave. Accord- sions ofofficials were subject to peri- Classical Studies at Alhens. began histecurebysKm'ngthaV'crira ing to Martin, this slave did not have odic scrutiny." He added that "the He is also therecipient ofanumber are deeply puzzling, deeply fascinat- an individual master, but was owned certifier's position was an anomaly." of awards and honors, which include ing objects.' His lecture addressed ccrtkxu vely bythestate. "These slaves Martin went on to explain this fdkwshrps from the American Nu-inisma- rjc two puzzling things in Athenian de- were, Martin said, "acquired during anomaly by saying that since Athe- ' Society, the Center for Hel- mocracy. ' ' th nian rejected any person . war orty confiscation ofpeople's democracy r M lenic Studies, the National Endow- The first question he put form was, personal slaves orbought in the inter- whose power could not be checked, it ment for the Humanities, and the "whywasitthatitwasaslavewhohad national market." gave such an un-Athen- ian power to a non-Atheni-an, American Council of Learned Soci- thepowertodecktewhetherthemoney . They were assigned various ad- . a slave. The legal lack I Mother Earth eties. one carried in Classical Athens was ministrative duties and hence had a His fields ofspedalization areAthe-- please see CLASSICS, page 2 page 10 authentic or counterfeit?" literacy rate higher than that of the Politics in Europe: changing times Severance By LIZ PUTERBAUGH eastern European countries experi- said there is "a strong urge to go back Sports enced "a revolution wuhout theory." to Europe," meaning the traditions of renovation Ivan Grdefic, assistant professor of The suddenness ofthecollapse left no Old Europe. political science at the University of time for planning of new political or "Italso means joining theeconomic Zagreb in Croatia, spoke about politi- economic systems, he said. As a re- forces ofEurope," Grdefic said. This planned cal and sociological transitions in cen- sult,he said,general rtationalism,frag-mente- d is at a time when most Western coun tral and eastern Europe last night in political parties and borrow-- tries are not willing to help economi-- NEWSSERVICES ScovelHalL ' cally, he added. A FuQxight scholar "We are being hit Robert Ebert, a member of the at the University of in-- "We are being hit by the swinging double by the swinging CbUege'sBoardofTrustees, hasmade diana for the past 16 doors transitional change. double doors of a pledge of $2 million through the ofeconomic and tran- Founda- Ivan Grdefic economic and Horatio B. Ebert Charitable been conducting sab-- sitional change." tion to renovate and expand the batical research in Grdefic said that College's Severance Gymnasium as American studies, lecturing at VS. ing of Western ideas has ensued. for much of the people, the poor and an art center. An inside look of the colleges, and working on a textbook "There's a lot of taking.-prett- y much unskilled the revolutions "didn't Ebert's commitment, along with Fighting Scots to take back to his students in Croatia. mechanically, of laws and constitu-- ?. change much. They're still in the other gifts and pledges, has brought His work and the subject of his lec- tionalroviskxis," from ccKmtries like position of the poor working class." the art center project more than half- 8-- . page 9 ture, he said, focuses on the major Germany, Grdefic said Politically, most countries use ma- way toward the $4 million needed for problems eastern and central Europe Grdefic addressed three broad ar- jority rule to satisfy"short-ter- m inter- the renovation and expansion. are experiencing while "emerging eas of political and sociological con-fli- ct ests," ina way that usually ignoresthe The artcenter will house the depart-m- m from authoritative regimes into de- in countries like Croatia, Bosnia, concerns of minorities, he said. ofmand will indude studios for mocracy." Poland and the former Yugoslavia: In response to a question from the drawing, painting, sculpture, print- Political science professor Dijana national identity. denxxyatrreuiort, and audience concerning theneed tocom-bin- e ing, ceramics photography and de- Editorials, columns communities into sign. Pkstma, wriose East Europe in Tran- the economic system and property multiethnic Thenswillalsobealectureroom letters to the national ethnic identity, Grdefic rooms, and sition class was m the audience, intro- rights. He said mat while older states one for 70 students, two seminar need to come up with editor in duced Grdefic as an mrxjvator in his like Poland, Hungary and Romania said he saw a offices for six faculty members, an art CCTretiflirinnfll rights to protect mi- -, areas field. It's the first time this kind of have to redefine themselves through gallery and storage for the Serbs in Croatia. Unfor- CWlege'f artcoUection. Twelvethou-san- d work is being done in that part of the democratization, younger states like norities like Viewpoints said, "You cannotbuild a world," she said. the Balkans have to define land bor- tunately, he square feet of gallery and clas- in a multinational Grdefk explained that,as Commu- ders and establish national emblems liberal democracy , page ,v, , ;.j please EBERT, page 3 - citizenship as welL He, stated y.t see 2 nist regimes fell in 1989,entral and .-- .and ideas of .":;".;.;.; i: ses' . --j Page 2 The Wooster Voice News November 19, 1993 News Briefs Classics continued from front page - - criminal proceedings. Public slaves Martin also pointed out the impor- NATIONAL were employed to perform these con- tant role played by Greek women in ofpower of the slave was counterbal- frontational di itira.hyause they never preventing crime. The women who The House of Rrprexntativei approved the North American Free trade anced by the power he had over citi- rotated in theirjobs. This allowed for spent most of their time at home kept Agreement (NAFTA) by a small majority Wednesday night The agreement zens property. The slave could be citizens to maintain an arms length their eyes open for suspicious people win gradually abolish Brills and othertrade barrieri between iteUnitedStetes, prosecuted witJxwcriminalprcceed-irrg- s from those citizens who had been and raised a cry ifthey thought some- Mexico and Canada. - , ; ! if there was any dissatisfaction condemned for crime. one was up to no good. has proposed quadrupling theuuontigareoestoBaryfor : President dinlon with his performance. ; , . In Martin's view, the lack of a Such a system, according to Mar- health-car- e reform. Tobacco unionmembers have said fl could Ipse as marry Thus,Manmcorcludcd,"AthaTian police force in Athens could be tin, "didn't always prevent crime, but debate the v as 81JD00 jobs if the increase passes. On the other side of the democracy rejected tlw imstmentof . plained by. examining the way Athe- Athens never dissolved into an orgy Long Association said that the best way lo curb rigareae srrtoking American --poSwer A tittoeni over other citizens nian society had found of living at ofstreet violence either.