by Louis Chen Administrative error was cited as the culprit that kept a group of DFLL juniors who tried to register for Professor Chao Chi-yu’s 趙姬玉 second year Japanese course out in the cold. Nine DFLL juniors who signed up for Prof. Chao’s class couldn’t believe their eyes when they received their course cards and discovered that they had been assigned to no Japanese course at all. The nine, who studied Japanese under Prof. Chao last year, need credits in Japanese II this year in order to graduate next year, and were unable to change to a section taught by a different professor due to scheduling conflicts. At the same time, a number of students who chose Prof. Chao’s course as an elective were accepted into the class. “We found it incredible that we would be refused admission into a required course,” said a DFLL junior. “We have a right to be in the class. The excluded students approached DFLL Chair Prof. Perng with the problem on Oct. 13. After discussing the matter with Japanese Department Chairman Ho Jui-teng 何瑞藤, Prof. Perng agreed to give the nine students special permission to enroll in Prof. Chao’s course.
A group of sophomores who signed up for Prof. Chao’s first year Japanese course were not as lucky. Like their junior counterparts, they were not assigned to Prof. Chao’s class in spite of having selected it on their registration forms. Both Prof. Perng and Prof. Ho agreed, however, that the sophomores had a much weaker case than the juniors. The sophomores in question were taking Japanese as an elective rather than required course, and had no scheduling conflicts that prevented them from enrolling in a different section. They were, however, given extra time - until October 20 - to register for another class. To solve the problem of who to take and who to turn away in her Japanese I course, Prof. Chao held a lottery on October 17. Both mix-ups seem largely attributable to the fact that class registration cards this semester lacked a blank on which students could indicate whether the course they were signing up for was “required” or “elective.” a
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