Anyone who took three or more years of the same foreign language in high 
school must be tested if they plan to continue in the same language.  If 
they slipped the noose when they were incoming Freshmen, they still need to 
be tested.  However, these few days of the semester are NOT the most 
convenient ones for us here in the department, since I am trying to do my 
work and my secretary's at the same time, and the Language Lab will not be 
running properly until we staff it, as usual, with Work-Study 
students.  Please do not send anyone to be placed until after the second 
week of classes.  This, of course, means that they will not be able to 
enroll in a foreign language class this semester.  We regret it, but if 
they had followed the rules, they would not find themselves in this pickle.

All Spanish 101 classes are for all intents and purposes full.  A couple 
have an enrollment of less than 27, but there are people on the respective 
waiting lists.  We are calling those people first, before we add any 
walk-ins.  After all persons on the waiting list for any given course have 
been taken care of, I will reopen the section.  Please do not tell students 
to go to class and see if they can get in.  We are not overloading the 
sections this year, as a result of less than optimum student outcomes when 
we have done so in the past.  If you will work with us, we will work with 
the students to the extent possible.  Please put any student who want to 
enroll for a closed class on the waiting list for that class.  If you do 
not know how to do it, please send them to 208 Brock, and we will be happy 
to do it here.

Thanks for your help,

Lala

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"La honra puédela tener el pobre pero no el vicioso."
         -Miguel de Cervantes- Don Quijote de la Mancha
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"I divide all readers into two classes:  Those who read to
remember and those who read to forget."
                         -William Phelps
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Oralia Preble-Niemi, Ph.D.
Professor and Head
Foreign Languages & Literatures
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN  37403
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