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 Though the lack of language requirement for me does stick out.  I think it is very important for peoples to know, or at least be acquainted with at least ONE language other than their native one.  I feel like the US in general lags behind in the language department~ and this is extremely frustrating.  Vexing, I should say.  Foreign language introduces in it of itself new perspectives, new nuances and social ideas and practices by its structure alone, and I think all persons should be able to experience that.  

That said... it would be nice to be in a classroom where everyone involved actually wants to be there.  Persons who are just filling their language requirement have a tendency, I think, to parlent en anglais, which does discourage and somewhat annoy those of us who wish to actively speak and practice our français.  I understand that they have to fill the requirement, and can understand an entirely lacking interest in all things french and francophone.  BUT it does tend to turn a college atmosphere into a high school one, which I think these new requirements mean to avoid.  I think freeing up that option is a good idea, and will lend itself to more engaged and satisfied students everywhere.  I think the worry is that students will choose not to pursue language on their own, thereby lessening the degree to which our worldly mission statement applies to us.  So it is a tradeoff, between trusting the student body to become of its own mission statement, or of the school to enforce what mission it should like us to represent.