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Student enrc Cottoga Praaa Exchange A growing number of students are shrugging off French, German and other traditionally popular languages to enroll in Chinese and Arabic, the fastest-growing foreign languages on college campuses. Chinese enrollment rose 36 percent between 1990 and 1995, to 26,471 students, and Arabic enrollment by 28 percent to 4,444, according to a survey of 2,700 two-year and fouryear colleges by the Modem Language NEWT continued from page 1 document distributed by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the Democrats' plan will send taxpayer dollars to Washington to be used in "Bill Clinton's Washington Bureaucracy." "The question is, who should have the money: families or the Washington bureaucracy?" Gingrich said in his press conference Wednesday. South Carolina Director for the Clinton/Gore campaign Mary SteeleNicholson was outside the Republican event with approximately 200 other South Carolina Democrats as they hosted a "Boot Newt" rally. "We're here to talk about issues affecting South Carolina families, and we're here to talk about how Newt Gingrich and the Republican agenda is the wrong agenda for our country," SteeleNicholson said prior to the rally's start. "Cutting education, for example, is not an option. Education is what will take us into the 21st century. Not wanting to take care of senior citizens is not an option," Steele-Nicholson said. "I represent [millions] of seniors in this great United States and am happy to be with you on behalf of President Clinton and the Democratic party," South Carolina senior citizen and "Boot Newt" rally speaker Fran Potter said. "I have been through many scary elections in CHARGES PAD CKOIV TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. BiliWBfl Tme[National Reservation Center 1 -800-2-COUNCIL ? (1-800-226-8624) ? httpv/www. ctee.org/traveLhtm EURO^SFROM$210 li mM M I I J A I H lliW ^ ^ llrilirflrJ ff? Mjfo my lifetime, and this election is the most important election of my life," Potter said. "Die Republicans' and Newt Gingrich's $270 billion cut in Medicare would have been devastating to seniors like me," Potter continued "I am here to say thank you to President Clinton and the Democratic party." State Republican party chairman Hemy D. McMaster commends President Clinton as well, but for his politicking skills rather than his salvation of Medicare. "I think people just don't look up to President Clinton," McMaster said "Even though he is a very good politician." McMaster chooses to ignore the polls that show Dole trailing President Clinton by as many as 15 points, as some results have shown. According to McMaster, four and a half years ago, British polls predicted that Britain's Labour Party would gain the Prime Ministership by a landslide. On Election Day, however, the Conservative Party captured most of the vote, and John Major assumed the role of Prime Minister. McMaster expects Dole to win South Carolina, although he thinks the race will continue to tighten through Election Day on Nov. 5. "People want to cut taxes and the Clinton administration has been one of the most corrupt in American history," McMaster said on reasons why Dole will win the 1996 election. Teople dont trust the man and that's a very bad state of affairs," he continued. "The number one reason [why young people should vote for DoleKemp]? Drug use increased 73 percent while the size of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was cut by 80 percent," junior history major Todd Firth said. "The second reason? Clinton passed the largest tax increase in the history of the world. I'm voting for Dole because I will have kids one day." On the contrary, State Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter (D-Orangeburg) said students' futures depend on President Clinton's re-election this November as well as elections of other key Democrats in South Carolina, including Rhett Power, who seeks House seat 75. *'r??^? \w Paris $299 Quito $384 , Santiago $634 Hong Kong $434 Tokyo $473 Fares are each way from Ccxumba based on a roundtwp pur2!*?' po not ncluoe federal taxes or PFCs totaling between $3-545. nfpfnn**-. r*i rvctmatmn or departure )llment in no Association. However, Spanish remains number one in enrollment, with 606, 286 students. The next most popular languages are French (205,351) and German (96,263). The survey notes that French enrollment dropped 25 permit between 1990 and 1995, and German by 28 percent. Far fewer students enrolled in Russian, which dropped 45 percent At the University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, Chinese enrollment has Hp K. I n-traditional 1 risen since 1990, while Japanese has leveled off or remained the same, said Richard Larson, administrative assistant at UCLA's East Asian Languages and Culture Department. Students are interested in China because "it's such an up and coming economic power," he said. Chinese is spoken not only in China, but also Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan?some of the fastestgrowing economic markets. Attorneys will often hire a UCLA Chinese HHtflH? mm jjy?' I ? "' fr, ; ?. ^ wf% I^?L. v^5fe ' iw . Ml H 9 anguage clas: teaching assistant to act as an interpreter during a business deal, Larson said. "We get people calling all the time for translators," he said. "I tell students, 'If you know Chinese, you're going to be one step ahead.'" Still, most of the 280 UCLA students enrolled in Chinese are drawn to the course because of their heritage. "Ninety percent are Asian-Americans whose parents speak Chinese at heme," Larson said. Larson, who is not Chinese, began ses continues auditing language courses several years ago, after watching the crackdown of pro-democracy protesters in Be'ijing's Tiananmen Square with his Chinese roommate. "He had the TV on incessantly," he explained. "I started really becoming involved with the Chinese people " In fact, educators saylt is not unusual for big newsrevents to affect course enrollment. Interest in Russian eased as the Cold War ended; interest in the stutfy of German seemed to fall 4? Nfsi * J^| :fe" i r v I You get to be team r iu dial 1-8QO-COLLECP| r You call from every J You call long-lost relati\ Everyone you call saves I SAUF THE PFflPll ; to increase with the Berlin Wall. Acting chair of Georgetown University's Arabic department Margaret Nydell said she is not surprised by the results of the MLA's survey. "It makes sense to me because of ? * -r a?L: a me prominence ui uie Ajauic wuiiu? in international politics and economic concerns," she said. 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