Plush Bubble Happy Page 6 Basketball Music Recital St. Patrick's Honors Page 7 Day! Page 8 The C ollegian Grove City College Vol. 55 No.1 Friday, March 17, 1995 Even GCC professors never stop learning By BEN FLETCHER search and its relevance to Collegian News Editor evening demonstrating the students. Each gave an function of research in overview of the research and The social science hon- keeping professors abreast of orary Pi Gamma Mu hosted highlighted its importance the latest trends and findings and benefit to students and the annual Faculty Scholar- in their respective field. She the college. ship Evening March 9 in the said exposure to criticism and Rare Book Room. Three other thinkers allows her to Grove City professors spoke Dr. Mary Virginia Reese continue learning and on their current academic re- Dr. Reese, professor of growing. modern language, began the Beginning with her gradu- ate work at the University of Miracle performance Alabama, Dr. Reese has re- searched the area of textual criticism of medieval French literature. Currently she is in the final stages of refining and translating a 15th century work by Christine de Pizan. Pizan was the first profes- sional woman to earn her living through writing. Professors Ray, Reese and Anderson present their re- The work entitled Le dit de search to the campus. la pastoure, the tale of the shepherdess, follows the life manuscripts. Many of these the English translation. The of a shepherd's daughter who have deteriorated with time tedious process can take a becomes romantically in- and require extensive deci- very long time, especially for volved with a knight. Going phering of letters and words. against the advice of friends, Next, each manuscript must a professor teaching full- be compared to every other time. Dr. Reese hopes the the shepherdess gives her work to be completed in "the heart to the knight and is and all discrepancies noted. near future." soon heartbroken by his un- This allows errors to be iso- expected departure. lated and relations between Dr. William P. Anderson While the story has an in- the manuscripts to be discov- ered. Dr. Anderson, a sociology teresting plot, Dr. Reese's in- professor, noted several John Patrick Weish, Terl Hayes and Alison Conrad per- terest lics more in its underly- After this collation, one motivations for his research form tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. in "The Miracle ing messages and the differ- manuscript is "scientifically" Worker. chosen based on the relation- in addition to teaching. He ences in this work from oth- ships established and the admits he "enjoys the hunt" ers in the genre. By translat- relative degree of correctness. in library research, but his ing the work, she hopes to primary motivation comes Scholar lectures on make its subtle beauty avail- Finally, editing changes are able to a wider audience. made to the chosen script and from his feeling of duty. Dr. The translation process the translation process begins. Anderson said he recognizes his God-given abilities and is educational reform When the entire work has begins with the transcribing of the been refined and translated, attempting to fill the void he eight extant Dr. Reese hopes to publish Continued on Page 2 "Reforming Education Counselor to the Secretary at Today" is the subject of Grove the U.S. Department of City College's final Visiting Education from 1991-93. She is Scholar Lecture for the spring author of What Do Our-17-Year Editor-in-Chief resigns; 1995 semester. Dr. Diane Olds Know? (with Chester Finn of the Educational Excellence Network); departure opens door for change The Schools We Deserve; Former Editor-in-Chief of The Troubled Crusade: ment, and Collegian adminis- The Collegian, Phil Markwat, begun implementing changes trator; and Jeralyn Yanity, American Education, 1945- submitted his letter of in the five issues during Collegian managing editor. which he held the Editor-in- 1980; The Revisionists Revised: immediate resignation to As a sophomore, Markwat Chief's position. and The Great School Wars: Stephanie Cates, director of was named Editor-in-Chief Wishing responded to New York City, 1805-1973. She public information and Col- Markwat's resignation in a has written nearly 200 articles legian advisor on March 11. See letter personal letter to the former and reviews and has lectured Markwat cited reasons for Editor-in-Chief. This letter worldwide. his resignation from the college newspaper which are was also sent to those previ- detailed in his Letter to the to the editor ously mentioned as well as to Dr. Ravitch was chair of the Editor on page two. communications professors Educational Excellence Net- Prior to today's pub- and Dancille Combee, Betsy Craig work in Washington, D.C., chair lication, copies of Markwat's and William Donnelly. Dr. Diane Ravitch of the American Federation of letter of resignation were also Wishing's formal response to Ravitch will speak on Monday, Teachers Education for sent to President Combee; response on Markwat's letter of resigna- Democracy Project, and co- Tom Harrison, executive edi- tion also appears on page March 20 at 7:00 p.m. in Ketler two. Auditorium of the Pew Fine chair of the National Academy tor of the Record-Argus in Arts Center. of Education's Task Force on Greenville and Collegian ad- page two. "It is truly unfortunate, visor; sophomore Jonathan and ironic," Wishing wrote in the Future of Education Larsen, Collegian business the letter to Markwat, "that Dr. Ravitch was the Assistant Research Priorities last fall to succeed senior manager; Nancy Paxton, vice you are leaving just as the Rebecca Beinlich, who had Secretary of Education for The lecture is free and open president of student affairs; guidelines that you were so Research and Improvement and to the public. Lee Wishing, director of served as the Collegian desperately seeking are about Editor-in-Chief for three communications and place- to be written by The semesters. Markwat had Collegian staff."