From jfgannon@cloud9.net Sun Mar 11 14:10:57 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.02) with ESMTP id f2BMAtL23782 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:10:55 -0800 Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id OAA12948 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:10:55 -0800 Received: from jfgannon (203-180.dialup.cloud9.net [168.100.203.180]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B198228BFF for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:10:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000c01c0aa78$d97b2e60$b4cb64a8@jfgannon> From: "J.F. Gannon" To: Subject: No foreign languages in Iowa! Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:15:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0009_01C0AA4E.F0067560" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C0AA4E.F0067560 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I read yesterday that Iowa has declared English to be its official = language and that Drake University, described as the largest private = university in Iowa, will do away with all foreign language study. I do = not know if these events are related. The president of Drake was quoted = as saying that he has no prejudice against the study of foreign = languages, since he himself has taught Russian, but that the way to = learn, say, French, was to go to France not to a school in Iowa. The = article did not mention how many languages were involved--there are = fifteen members of the faculty--but I wonder what the gentleman would = say to any one who wanted to study Latin or Greek. Perhaps he would = recommend a visit to some region of the the other world. J.F. Gannon ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01C0AA4E.F0067560 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I read yesterday that Iowa has declared = English to=20 be its official language and that Drake University, described as the = largest=20 private university in Iowa, will do away with all foreign language = study. I do not know if these events are related. The = president of=20 Drake was quoted as saying that he has no prejudice against the study of = foreign=20 languages, since he himself has taught Russian, but that the way to = learn, say,=20 French, was to go to France not to a school in Iowa. The article = did not=20 mention how many languages were involved--there are fifteen members of = the=20 faculty--but I wonder what the gentleman would say to any one who wanted = to=20 study Latin or Greek. Perhaps he would recommend a visit to = some=20 region of the the other world.

J.F. Gannon

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