Liberal arts education and the challenges it faces — special lecture

For those interested in liberal arts education, its purposes and the challenges it faces:

Victor Ferrall, former president of Beloit College and author of Liberal Arts at the Brink, will present a special lecture tomorrow, Wednesday March 19, 11:30-12:45 in LIB 101.  Should be very interesting!

The hidden music in Plato’s dialogues

Tarbet forwarded a couple of links to me about a scholar who has found hidden musical qualities in the structure of some of Plato’s dialogues. This YouTube is a short interview with the scholar, where he sketches out the basic idea:

And this link is to one of his papers in which he shows more concretely what he’s talking about, in connection to the Symposium:

Click to access Kennedy_Visual_Intro.pdf