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...protest the award of a Harvard honorary degree to this woman. Brucia Witthoft Ph.D., GSAS...
Like many other students at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Herman Marshall straps on his helmet each morning and bikes the four miles from his apartment in Medford to the Astrophysics lab. But within the intangible institution of GSAS--which has a scattered student body, a sporadic academic calendar and few buildings of its own--Herman Marshall, as president of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), has a clearly defined role...
Marshall, a fifth year graduate student who expects to receive his Ph. D. in Astrophysics next year, sees himself as both an organizer of graduate activities and a conveyor of student concerns to the administration. This spring he spent his spare time organizing GSAS intramurals, sending a delegation to Washington to protest proposed student loss cuts, and trying to convince administration officials that graduate students have many of the same social and counseling needs as undergraduates...
This feeling of isolation combined with a concern that GSAS was being "dwarfed" by other, more formidable Harvard graduate institutions--the Law. Business and Medical Schools--first prompted Marshall to join the GSC in his second year of graduate school. Marshall has a favorite anecdote that illustrates what he sees as the plight of the GSAS student...
When as a senior at MIT, he was accepted by the GSAS, he couldn't wait to tell his friends the good news. The nearly universal response: "So what graduate school have you been accepted to--Business or Medicine...