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...sure, the students of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) are a vital part of the Harvard community, and their voice in the controversy surrounding Summers is an important one to include. If done right, public opinion polls conducted occasionally could be effective as part of a multi-faceted approach to gauging student sentiment. But a poll of graduate students mimicking the measures voted on at a FAS meeting one week earlier—which itself was flawed at best— demonstrates a disconcerting thoughtlessness on the part...
...crisis. Instead, one of the stated goals of Zoe F. Trodd, president of the GSC, was for the poll to help publicize grad student sentiment to the media. We are glad many graduate students stayed away from this flawed poll—substantially less than half of all GSAS students voted—siphoning away any legitimacy that may have carried a skewed outcome to national news pages...
...next dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) will likely come from within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), rather than from another university, according to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby...
...dean will replace outgoing GSAS head Peter T. Ellison, who announced last month that he will step down at the end of this year...
Only 1,543 of the approximately 3,500 GSAS students turned out for the poll, Trodd said. But she speculated that the low figure may suggest that students are dissatisfied with what questions the FAS community is asking...