To the Editor,

My name is Alek (Friedman) Lev ’97, and I’m responding to “Signs of the Times” by Himeka Curiel. It’s wonderful to learn about the ASL classes to be taught by Assistant Professor of the Practice in American Sign Language Pedro Pascual. Students will benefit from his expertise and it’s crucial that ASL be taught by Deaf teachers. In the article, however, Curiel notes that ASL courses “have been offered since 2001,” which isn’t quite correct. ASL classes go back at least to the 1990s, and I know this because I took them, and they changed the course of my life.