Inouye responds to article

Dear Editor,



Your article "Course Requirement Changes on Hold until Final Task Force Report" (Jan. 31, 2003) may have given people the wrong impression. Deliberations about curricular requirements are not on hold. To the contrary, some of the faculty committees about which you wrote _ EPC, and the two Curriculum committees _ will be addressing the issue of requirements this semester, as a part of the effort to produce a final Task Force report. That report must get a nod of approval from the faculty, since it includes curricular matters. It is hard to predict how far these committees will get in their discussions of the requirements this semester, but the Task Force has urged the faculty to take advantage of the moment.

Needless to say, many students and faculty members have been waiting

for a long while for a decision on the Foreign Language Culture Option and a possible Diversity Requirement.



Respectfully,

Charles Shiro Inouye

Dean of the Colleges