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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The Cornell Daily Sun</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Language Courses Suffer Crowding</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>For many students, getting a place in certain language courses last August may have been more difficult than actually learning the language itself. As instruction began, however, and students shopped around for courses, most of the long waitlists disappeared.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The present availability of open spots is in sharp contrast to the scenario at the beginning of the semester, when frustrated students failed to get into the sessions of their choice. In the first few days of fall semester classes, the waitlist for JAPAN101: Elementary Japanese contained 58 names; 45 hopeful students were in line for CHIN101: Elementary Standard Chinese Mandarin.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Full story:</FONT></P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Francis M. Hult, Ph.D.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Assistant Professor</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>University of Texas at San Antonio</DIV>
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<DIV>Web: <A href="http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/fhult/">http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/fhult/</A></FONT></DIV>
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