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Prm says students fear learning foreign language
By Scott V7.;lcc:rb
liny stu-:r.tj question the relevance cf'
the Isr.gasgs requirement ia the UNL Arts
ar.d Su.ce Cel;;;, tut a UNL fcrge
professor sdd the reasoa they question it
is becruse Americans have a fciic fear of
knowledg
professor, said
with
PrJ Schach, Germaa
Americans are playing
education tcdsy, rat crdy in forffon ki
games
ut5, bu la all artss of education.
"Americans have a strarge unique fear
of studying a tartly language,1" Schach
said, Ve have' a basic fear of knowledge
and mterriationd affairs. There is also a
fear of intellectuals who kno too much,"
he sad,
Schach dtc J an , editorial by James
Clemon ia the Omzliz KcrU Iterzli, which
stated 49 per cent of incorning freshmen at
the University of Nebraska at Omsha
(UNO) are unable to take the standard
freshman English class. Me added that 20
per cent of the studnets w21 probably be
it the third grade reada lewd,
Schach said 'CX ,.. Jhteniag re
ality in America today because it is typical
of a rational trend,'" .
. Shiifiiesft the ws!4
e are . shutting oat the rest of the
world by cot studying foreign languages,''
Schach sdd, Ow forda contsondents
dont even know what is going on," he
said,
"How irany of them (foreign correspon
dents) do yea thick caa flaeay speak the
tegssxge of the country they are supposed
to be ctmspcasEag from?" Schsca asked.
"There was net a handful cf people who
knew the language, Che policies or the
culture cf Vietnam,1" he said, ""Gar
dedaoss were made ia ignorance,1"
Barbara Kuhn, Spanish instructor,
agreed wilh Schach that a person can ob
jectively look at his own language better
through the point of view of another -language,
Students too often look at things that
will benefit them directly instead of
looking at their general education as a
whole," Kxkn said,
."Education isn't all practical,'" she sail
Everything cant have dollars and cents
attached to it
David Gitlitz, chairman of fee Modern
Language Dept., said it is not fair to ques
tion the vilue and philosophy of the
longueg; requirement without ' abo
ccnsderir.g the philosophies behind other
Arts and Sciences College requirements.
it only makes sense to consider any of
the group requirements in relation to the
whole concept and philosophies behind the
group requirements,'" Gitlitz said, '"because
of the risk involved in considering some of
them as part of the broadly based hberal
ia depth at a 1973 Arts and Sciences Col
lege faculty meeting, Gi'Jitz said. The
faculty voted to keep the requirements
sarpri:y without msjor lobbying from
the Language Dept."
Gitlatz ssid that although he knows cf
no currant rrpcdtioa to the lorgurge re
quirement, there is lots cf passion on
both sides,1
Toby Churchill, a junior environmental
arts idea and judging others by professional ; health major, said he thought the language
criteria," ' ' requirement took away valuable time from
The language requirement was discussed a student's particular area cf study.
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They (language requirement advocates)
say that by taking a language, it will make
a culturally rounded person out of you,"
GiurcMSl said. "Cut I don't see how it caa
do that unless you have the epporturity to
isit thit psrti'jxlar country and hava the
IxoW? to relate to the people there.1
Another current Ur.gusg; student, who
4 to reman anonymous, siiJ that
"with rare exceptions the lr:-.:g: require-
The kngtgs requlrer4ent was never
quite enough, to make me tvdd Arts and
Sdences CoH:ge,w tle lirgutge student
sdi, "but that was enly because my mrjor
requires me to go through the ccHegt."
Lee Jolasoa, a senior journalism mrjor,
said he avoided Arts and Sciences College
because of the language requirement,
"I tried language ia high schooI,w Joha
son said. I took a year and didn't like it,
and everyone ia high school knew that
language was required ia Arts and Sciences
College, so I looked into Teachers
Cege.n .-"
"I really want tobe a teacher now," he
said, "but one of my incentives for looking
into Teachers College was because of the
language requirement ia Arts and Sciences.
Deveiiy 'Mosher, director of Teachers
CoHsge advising, said that students have
hold her from time to time they disked
fee language requirement and entered
TesAaC1lefetoavoMiL .
e have students ia Teachers College -who
have avoided language altogether, and
also those who have tried it ia Arts and
"Sciences aadhave cot been able to
complete it," Hfcshsr said.
Teachers Co&ge-offers a bachelor cf
arts degree, which is identical to the
Arts and Sciences bachelor of arts, and a
bachelor cf science which does not require
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