Dear Editor,
Regarding your editorial ("Transforming the study of language," Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005), encourage students, professors, and administrators to write their U.S. representative and ask him/her to support the National Security Languages Act. If passed, this bill would provide grants to universities teaching "less-commonly taught foreign languages" and pay off loans for students who major in those languages.
The government has the political will to create a generation of linguists who will address the challenges of our global era, but the 109th Congress needs to know that you also have the will to become one. We can show Tufts that this is the way to improving its languages departments.
Michael Stanton-Geddes
Alumnus, Class of 2004
