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must be properly maintained. You must ensure that all relevant patches and updates for your machine have been applied and that your virus protection is up-to-date. If you have a computing problem, the Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) Help Centre, located at 13 Banbury Road, provides a single point of contact for all-front line user support (Tel: 273200 or email help@oucs.ox.ac.uk). You may also wish to brush up your computing skills on some of the free training courses OUCS offers. For current information, check the website at www.oucs.ox.ac.uk. Email Classical Archaeology and Ancient History students are required to consult their university email account at reasonable intervals, that is, daily Mon - Sat in Full Term, as official communications may be sent to it. If you have another account as well (e.g. Hotmail) you should still check your university account daily. The Data Protection Act You should have received from your college a statement regarding personal student data, including a declaration for you to sign indicating your acceptance of that statement: please contact your college's Data Protection Officer if you have not. Further information about Data Protection within the University can be found at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/councilsec/dp/index.shtml. 4.18 Classical Greek and Word Processing Word-processing and handling electronic documents are essential skills for all classicists today. For years undergraduates were content to leave blanks in their work and write in by hand Greek characters with breathings and accents, because of the difficulty of including them electronically, but Greek is now easy to incorporate into essays and this is a skill which all students should acquire. The precise method depends on what kind of computer you are using: Apple Macintosh computers function very differently from PCs. Because of this the faculty recommends that students use the international standard method of incorporating Greek into documents, namely Unicode, which is a cross-platform standard (making your documents equally readable on both PCs and Macs). This standard is supported by most modern word-processing packages, including recent versions of MS Word, and operating systems (for PCs from Windows 98 onwards, and for Macs from OS X onwards). In order to use Unicode Greek on your own computer, you need two things. The first is a font, so that you can actually view the Greek. Not many fonts include a complete set of Greek characters including accents and breathings, but some common fonts do (e.g. New Athena Unicode, Palatino Linotype, Arial Unicode). There are also freeware fonts you can find online that contain the necessary characters, one popular such font is Gentium (which has an alternative version GentiumAlt with ‘proper’ circumflex accents). Any of these fonts will be able to display Greek and you can change the format of text between these fonts and they remain the same. [This is the great advantage of the Unicode standard, since in older encodings, changing the font usually scrambled the text entirely and left it as unreadable nonsense.] The second thing you need is some easy method to enter the Greek characters. You could of course use the character map or insert symbol commands of your word-processor to do it, but this is time-consuming and inefficient even for a single word. Instead, there are various keyboard utilities available which allow you to use your normal keyboard as if it were a Greek keyboard (e.g. so that you type [a] and you get an alpha). These also allow you to access the 18
accents and breathings, usually by typing a key before the vowel in question (e.g. so that typing [2] then [i] gives an iota with a smooth breathing and acute accent). Some of these utilities work only in specific word-processing packages, while others will work with any. Two popular Greek input keyboards are Antioch (for Windows) by Ralph Hancock www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm and GreekKeys (Mac & Windows) http://apagreekkeys.org/AboutGK2008.html from the American Philological Association. There is a small cost involved in purchasing fully functional licenced versions of these applications. Further information on IT in Classics, including questions of fonts etc. can be found on WebLearn: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/humdiv/classics/page/home. 4.19 Museums The Ashmolean Museum in Beaumont Street is second in the UK only to the British Museum in its collections of vases, sculpture (including a famous Cast Gallery), coins, and other objects: these are well worth getting to know whether or not you are doing one of the special subjects for which they are essential. 4.20 Societies There is a University Classical Society, and a University Archaeology Society, details of their meetings will be sent to members each term. The Classical Drama Society also has meetings and puts on plays in the original languages and in English. 4.21 Scholarships, Prizes and Grants After Mods, you will be eligible for a scholarship or exhibition from your college, on academic criteria which the college decides and applies. The University administers a number of trust scholarships. All are listed in the University’s Statutes and Regulations and in a supplement to the University Gazette (www.ox.ac.uk/gazette), which is published at the beginning of Michaelmas Term. You can consult these in your college office or a library. Those which particularly concern Classical Archaeology and Ancient History are as follows: • Ireland and Craven Scholarships (Dean Ireland's Scholarship: £500; three Craven Scholarships: £250). An examination consisting of four papers, taken in the week before Michaelmas Full Term. Entry forms available the Academic Administrative Assistant, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU (undergraduate@classics.ox.ac.uk). Candidates must send their names on an entry form to the Academic Administrative Assistant by 1 September each year. • C. E. Stevens and Charles Oldham Scholarships in Classical Studies (C. E. Stevens Scholarship: about £400; about 14 Charles Oldham Scholarships: about £300). These are grants for travel related to your studies. Application forms available from the Academic Administrative Assistant, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU (undergraduate@classics.ox.ac.uk). These applications are due in Hilary Term. Grants for special purposes such as research travel, or for hardship, are available from many colleges to their members. There are also two more general schemes: • Access Funds are provided by the state to give financial help to full-time 'home' undergraduates and postgraduates where access to higher or further education might be inhibited by financial considerations, or where students, for 19
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