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Graduate Spanish program planned
Greek to be taught at A&M in fall
By Mike Sullivan
Staff Writer
I Greek will be added to the curric
ulum in the Department of Modern
[Languages this fall and three profes
sors in French, two in Russian and
one in classics will be added to the
present number of 35 by then, says
department head Dr. Luis Costa.
■ The department is also planning a
graduate program in Spanish and
the addition of Italian, Portugese,
Chinese and Japanese, he added.
I “The enrollment in modern lan
guages has been growing fantasti
cally in the last three years,” Costa
says. “We simply cannot keep
enough classes open. We have far
more demand than we can accom
modate.
I There are about 100 language
majors, with many education majors
“The enrollment in modern languages has been grow
ing fantastically in the last three years. We simply can
not keep enough classes open. ”
— Luis Costa, head of the modern languages depart
ment.
concentrating on a foreign lan
guage, Costa says. Other curric-
ulums also require foreign language
credits.
He says class sizes must be rela
tively small in language courses be
cause they require each student to
participate daily. He considers the
ideal class size to be 20 students, but
classes average 24 students this se
mester. Costa teaches a composition
course with 33 students.
Advertisements in National Lan
guage Association publications are
being used to attract new faculty to
A&M. About 100 people have ap
plied for the positions so far. The
applicants are screened by a search
committee, and the best are granted
interviews.
The modern languages depart
ment sponsors study programs in
Germany, France and Spain. Stu
dents who participate in study
abroad earn six credit hours.
“It’s likely that we’ll try to get a
program to Russia by next summer,”
Costa says.
The department is trying to ar
range a semester study program
whereby students will travel with a
professor to another country and
study for a full semester.
The success of the semester pro
grams abroad will depend on the
growth of the department, Costa
says.
“If we take too many students, we
will deplete our classes here,” Costa
says.
To encourage growth, the Uni
versity recruits high school students
regularly, and the department has
expanded its recruiting to include
graduate and minority students,
Costa says.
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telegram to
actor Eastwood
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San
Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros
has sent a telegram to actor Clint
Eastwood welcoming him to “the
good, bad and ugly world” of mu
nicipal government.
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gram in his capacity as president
of the National League of Cities.
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gram, Cisneros made several ref
erences to movies in which
Eastwood has starred
“Welcome to the good, bad and
ugly world of local government,”
Cisneros wrote in the telegram
Wednesday. “You will find all our
communities share issues, like
rowth that can be turned every
and ck: which way but loose.”
Vandiver recommends making
Corps’ leader A&M employee
By Mona Palmer
Staff Writer
Texas A&M President Frank E.
Vandiver has recommended that the
next Corps commandant be em
ployed by the University rather than
assigned by the military.
This change will simplify the
chain of command for the cadets
and give A&M an employee respon
sible for Corps activities, Vandiver
told the A&M Board of Regents at
its last meeting.
Vandiver initiated a study of the
Corps’ administration and its
relationship with the University af
ter Gen. Ormond Simpson retired as
head of the School of Military Sci
ence Sept. 1. The president’s select
committee recommended the
change in the Corps administration.
Currently, the professor of mili
tary science, who is assigned by the
military, also serves as commandant.
Col. Donald Burton, the current
Corps commandant, said the split
will make both positions more effec
tive.
"I do spend a great deal of time
on University business that might
otherwise be devoted to ROTC
training —- which is why I’m sta
tioned here,” he said.
The split also looks good from the
army’s standpoint, Burton said, be
cause the military science professor
can concentrate on the ROTC train
ing while the commandant concen
trates his full effort on the Corps as a
unit.
Although the professor will con
centrate on the ROTC, the role of
the military advisers won’t change,
Burton said.
He said the changes will add flexi
bility and continuity within the Uni
versity system and its relations to the
Corps oecause the commandant
won’t be rotated every three years.
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