Gov. Department Seminars Adequate for Concentrators

A recent Crimson article (News, Jan. 30) and editorial (Feb. 4) expressed concern that government concentrators required to take junior seminars might be unable to take them this semester, due to the unusually large number of seminars we were forced to cancel. I am happy to report that this has not come to pass.

Only concentrators planning to pursue honors in government are required to take junior seminars, two of them. This term, all junior and senior concentrators who had not yet completed two seminars and told us they wanted to take one were admitted to one. And they were not admitted to just any seminar: 95 percent were admitted to their top choice, the remainder to their second choice.

The graduations of Government concentrators thus will not be delayed by the Faculty's activities in administration and propagation this spring. --Michael G. Hagen, Associate Professor and Head Tutor, Department of Government