From orichalch@yahoo.com Sun Jun 30 10:50:26 2002 Received: from mailscan6.cac.washington.edu (mailscan6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g5UHoPw3082810 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:50:25 -0700 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan6.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Jun 30 10:50:25 2002 -0700 Received: from web40001.mail.yahoo.com (web40001.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.19]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with SMTP id g5UHoOJX002377 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:50:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20020630175024.58506.qmail@web40001.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.68.54.140] by web40001.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:50:24 PDT Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:50:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Orrin Subject: Re: Explorator 5.9 To: classics@u.washington.edu In-Reply-To: <975238010.20020630084331@idirect.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks to David Meadows for his Explorator. I found the following article particularly disturbing: ---- Queen's University (Belfast) has voted to close its Classics department, despite pleas from various folks: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_2065000/2065797.stm ---- What makes it even more disturbing is the fact that although Classics is on the way out, Queen's will maintain an all-important (and politically motivated) Women's Studies Centre... http://www.qub.ac.uk/ssp/women/ws.htm I wonder if transgender lifestyle courses are the next addition to the Queen's curriculum... OC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com .