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Editor:
It is great to read that the university is now allowing students to take American sign language to fulfill their foreign language requirement ("New funding opens sign language classes to beginning students," Nov. 19). This means that there will now be more participation of the hearing population with the deaf population.
While the university as a whole may accept this new move towards acceptance, the College of Business and Public Administration is not. Their belief is that learning Spanish, German or French is more important than learning American sign language. It seems sad to me that yet again we are putting off the disabled population in order to acquire the new world order. I hope that some day the business college will recognize the importance of all American citizens and not just those that can hear.
I do understand that the world is a shrinking place and that we need to be able to compete with in the global market, but it should not be at the cost of the deaf community. Do not deaf persons have jobs, shop, interact with the government? These are all things that need to be dealt with if we ever expect this kind of discrimination to stop.
Carl W. Cooper
criminal justice administration senior
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