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by Elizabeth Jardina thresher editorial staff Even making the foreign language requirement official was a problem. The foreign language requirement did not appear in the 2000-'01 General Announcements as it was first printed. The requirement was later printed on a separate correction sheet, which has to be affixed into every copy of the General Announcements before it can be considered an official copy. Director of Academic Advising John Hutchinson said he first found out about the mistake in early August, when he returned from his vacation. He's not sure how the mistake was made. "I can only guess that since the requirement never existed before, there was nobody charged with the specific responsibility for making sure that the requirement was right," he said. "No one realized that it wasn't being done by anyone else." Hutchinson, who is also a Wiess College master, said he asked the college coordinators to make sure that inserts with the language requirement (as well as a corrected academic calendar) were affixed to the books. At Wiess, the job fell to college coordinator Sue Gauthier. "Sue used some kind of a sticky tape so that students could pull it out and put it back again," he said. "She felt like if you glued it in, you'd not be able to read the whole thing." Hutchinson said that the correction sheet is part of the 2000-'01 General Announcements. "An important point is that students who are intending to graduate according to the rules of the 2000-'01 [General] Announcements need to know that they don't have an official, complete copy if they do not have the correction sheet in there," he said. "So they should get one."
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