Ancient Greek philosophy

Police in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday launched a large-scale drug sweep in the area around Aristotle University after a female student was reportedly attacked by a user.

The operation led to 40 arrests for drug dealing and other related crimes, chiefly Albanian nationals.

Police arrested five teenagers and an adult and are looking for another suspect in connection with 19 muggings on the premises of Thessaloniki's Aristotle University and in nearby areas.

According to local reports, the perpetrators mostly preyed on young students, whom they robbed at knifepoint, making off with mobile phones and cash.

Professors at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT) co-authored a document to protest against rampant drug dealing inside the premises of the institution.

The document, published on Monday, calls on authorities to take immediate measures to remove drug traffickers operating freely in the campus.

Police are looking for the driver who struck a woman on Egnatia Street in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, in the early hours of Sunday.

The incident took place near the Theology School of the city's Aristotle University.

A report by a committee set up last year by the Education Ministry to investigate the problem of lawlessness in Greek universities has not offered specific solutions but leaves it to specific institutions to tackle the problem as they see fit, Kathimerini understands.

A year after 471 undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students at Thessaloniki's Aristotle University published a letter lamenting the level of delinquency inside its vast campus, a committee set up to discuss the issue concluded on Friday that the presence of police officers on the premises had reduced crime.

What is the public role of expertise in Greece? When should governments listen to them? No one expects a modern society to emulate Plato's Republic, but the question goes to the very heart of a widespread institutional problem and one that undoubtedly holds the country back.

Instances of violence and lawlessness at 16 Greek universities have sharply increased in recent years, reaching 53 in 2017, according to data compiled by the rector of the University of Macedonia, Achilleas Zapranis.

Diogenes the Cynic, the ancient Greek philosopher, was probably the man who invented “the finger” insult.

The historian of philosophy Diogenes Laertios wrote that the cynical philosopher Diogenes made the gesture to orator Demosthenes in the 4th century BC in Athens.

Members of the philology faculty of Thessaloniki's Aristotle University on Friday continued a sit-in at the institution's central administrative offices.

The students are protesting a new law for tertiary education that stipulates certain cutbacks, including a possible end to free textbooks.