I have this code from an HTML form:

```
<select name="history12">
    <option value="Gov/Econ">Government &amp; Economics</option>
    <option value="AP Gov/Econ">AP Government &amp; Economics</option>
</select>

```

...and this code, in a mailer form:

```
$history12 = $_REQUEST['history12'] ;

```

However, when I try to echo() $history12, it always returns blank. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong since other inputs work fine (text and radio) but it seems like it's bonking on selects.