pared to provide
        base budget support as it came to better understand the
        size of student interest. </font></p>
        <p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Professor Palumbo-Liu
        (Comparative Literature) offered several comments,
        including a suggestion that the foreign language
        requirement should be set at &quot;B&quot; rather than
        &quot;B minus.&quot; He also asked about financial
        arrangements for required fieldwork, encouraged more of
        an emphasis 