Word: gsas
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...first official gauge of student sentiment toward University President Lawrence H. Summers since his controversial remarks on women in science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) students voted that they do not lack confidence in his leadership...
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...
...some confidence but not a lot”—in Summers’ leadership. A poll put forth by the Graduate School Council, which closes this afternoon, purports to do the same for students of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) using the same questions asked in the FAS measures. But when the votes are tallied, what will we have learned? Unfortunately, not much. The unscientific nature of the polls, and a startling lack of attention paid to the wording of the measures, casts real doubt on their actual meaning...
...authority over Summers’ job security—had no other option but to fire off a loud cannon shot, in one direction or the other (it’s hard to tell which one). In the same way, it will be impossible to tell exactly how the GSAS student body feels about Summers’ leadership when the votes are counted tonight...
...Faculty wants to take a more accurate look at Summers’ leadership, there must be a properly designed survey to take the Faculty’s temperature (I declined to respond to the GSAS survey because it has the same bias problems as the faculty questions). Here’s one quick way to do that: for every survey sent out, randomly determine which statement is presented: the vote of confidence, or that of no confidence...