March 9, 2001

A University Plans to Promote Languages by Killing Its Languages Department

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

Russian professor-turned-president eliminates all jobs in French, German, and Spanish

David Maxwell has a message for prospective foreign-language students: If you want to study French, take a college course. If you want to learn to speak it, take a plane

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