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Before the report had been made available to them, Burton S. Dreben '49, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, had told a March meeting of faculty members that the report was one of the worst received by any University department. The dean had gone on to speak of low morale and other severe problems in the graduate program...
...Dreben's account probably surprised few in the department-- graduate students have been griping about their program for a long time. But when professors went to look at the visiting report excerpts, many were baffled at the blandness of the evaluation. The report was hardly written in the highly critical terms Dreben had suggested...
Last week, sources said that a number of departmental faculty members and a member of the visiting committee asked a senior professor to write to Dreben for a clarification...
According to one source, Dreben responded by admitting that his criticism of the graduate program came more from day to day contact with graduate students than from the visiting committee report...
Furthermore, Burton S. Dreben, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has said he anticipates an additional 10 per cent decrease in the number of graduate students in residence, to bring the total level down to between 2100 and 2200, the maximum number of students the GSAS says it can afford...