I just transferred here this year from a community college and I am a pre-communications major.

You printed an article about the Communications department’s limited space availability.

One section of the article states: “Undergraduate Communication Studies Director Arthur Doederlein said ‘Faculty members requested that we explain to non-majors the difficulty in getting into certain classes. So we did.'” I was never told that.

In addition, there are two other pre-coms majors on my floor that had to find out on their own just how difficult it is to get into the major.

Doederlein also said later in the article that this “study” is available to all coms students. Where? I’ve never seen it. I think a copy should be mailed to every pre-coms major. This is important information that we need to be told!

I don’t care if it does take them three months to cover all the majors, we need to be told. It was a surprise to read it in the newspaper and it shouldn’t have been. Thank God the Star is on the ball! (Thank you Galvin!)

Why weren’t we told? It seems to me that if we come in here declaring that we want to study communications we should be told of limited availability.

Why can’t classes be made larger, or more teachers hired so that we don’t have to change majors or schools? Put some of the lecture classes in Cole Hall. That way, about 300 students can take the class. 450 majors in a department doen’t sound like very much.

I like it here at Northern and don’t plan to transfer (for the second time) to another school, I also don’t plan to change my major. I have wanted to study communications since my junior year in high school. Something needs to be done.

Why do things have to be so difficult?

Melanie A. Gray

Sophomore

Pre-Communications