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After reading the editorial “Our Lack of Confidence” (Mar. 25), I was dismayed at the collective ignorance of The Crimson Staff in regards to the Graduate Student Council (GSC), the recent GSC poll about University President Lawrence H. Summers, and the Harvard graduate student experience in general...
...gender equity issues surrounding President Summers’ recent comments, in addition to the Allston planning and curricular review, have been discussed openly and frequently in recent months at GSC meetings. Advanced graduate students certainly have experienced “life under Summers’ leadership for four years,” and using the phrase “hearsay and anecdotal evidence” to cheapen the well-informed and thoughtful opinions of the graduate student body was unhelpful...
Certainly, the questions posed by the GSC apply to graduate students as well as the larger Harvard community. Graduate students perform much of the teaching and research at the university, and many of us will eventually obtain professorial appointments. We interact at a more collegial level with Harvard professors than do the majority of undergraduates, and many of us have personal friendships with our professors and care about their professional careers at Harvard. Furthermore, many Harvard professors are deeply interested in the opinions of graduate students in regard to the current state of affairs of the university. The GSC poll...
...qualms graduate students have with Allston planning, the curricular review, or the tenuring of female faculty, or if their concerns are wholly different. But we’re sure that professors, not graduate students, are far more qualified to comment on all of those issues. If the GSC was set on conducting a poll, it should have taken steps to tweak the questions in order to yield more relevant results. From the outset, the conclusions of this poll were fated to insignificance because they were not grounded in any clearly stated graduate student concerns...
...passed. The goal of assessing graduate student sentiment should not be to land a spot in tomorrow’s New York Times, but to aid the reassessment and rehabilitation process of a University in 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...