Some students love to learn foreign languages.
For them, languages and studying other cultures are fun. Matthew Croco of Iowa City, now a student in the College of Dentistry, enjoyed learning German in high school so much that he took two years more as an undergraduate, even though his high school study had fulfilled the requirements. For many others, however, Iowa's foreign language requirement is the academic axe hanging over their course schedule. I'll never use it again. Sometimes parents, remembering hours of drill and struggles with verb forms in their own college experience, agree with their students.