By now, everyone should have registered or be in the process of registering for classes. If you haven’t started, well, Ed Board wishes you luck.

Registration is always an entertaining time. Picking out classes that look easy, picking out classes that our friends are in and picking out classes that might be — gasp — fun, it’s an end of the semester tradition.

It can be an annoyance though. What’s a CF? Human Diversity co-requirement? Thankfully, each college, and almost every major, has its own panel of advisers to help students through the rigmarole.

This is all well and good, but Ed Board would like to see some additional CF courses. For those of you that don’t already know, CF stands for Cultural Formation. What that means is anyone’s guess, as most classes don’t seem to have anything to do with forming culture.

However, students can learn about Chaos Theory, 20th Century Musical Theatre or Postwar European Cinema.

Now, we’re sure that all these classes are entertaining, and even insightful, but they’re still lacking something.

Namely, learning about something that you can use on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

The general education curriculum does include these other more relevant classes, but what if you’re a double major, or a major double minor? Most likely, you won’t have time to indulge in another class that is just an elective.

We would like to see that change.

Wouldn’t students prefer Intro to Modern Dance to Clash of Culture from 1450 to 1850, which has four sections this fall.

What about taking another economics course? You’ve had the Macro and now you want the Micro? Well, that’s too bad, because you only need one PoliSci/Econ credit for your general education requirements.

We believe that the CF policy was instituted as a means to get students to diversify their education. However, they seem to have become just niche classes.

This is fine, many students enjoy having required “blow-off” classes. However, students should also be allowed to take a real course as a CF if they so desire.

There are other problems with the GEC, such as having to fulfill five of six sections, but being unable to participate in the section that one’s major is in.

However, these are problems for another editorial.

Ed Board would like every student to ask their advisor if they can take a regular class as a CF. If you do, we’ll give you a cookie. Honest.