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...across all departments so all students had a fair chance at the jobs, to ease the burden of tuition and expenses. The new guidelines, drawn up by a student-Faculty committee and approved by Rosovsky, will take effect next year. Michael Moynihan, a member of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), says the guidelines tackle only part of the problem. "The kind of teaching one does, whether a graduate student can propose tutorials and have freedom from the syllabus, as well as how much responsibility a teaching fellow has, are still issues with many graduate students," Moynihan says...
Many GSAS students feel that the lack of a center for social and intellectual communication between students of different departments is the GSAS's single worst problem. "We lack any kind of community feeling," Moynihan says. The GSC hopes next year to provide a graduate student center for students to meet other graduate students...
...stressed enough--there is a total absence of any facilities for social and intellectual get-togethers on the level of the undergraduate house system," explains Lee Smolin, a graduate student in Physics and a GSC member. GSC members will look for a center on campus this summer, and hope to arrange GSAS intramural sports next year as another attempt to foster community spirit...
...GSC committee this year dispelled student concern that GSAS financial aid was distributed unequally among departments, by compiling research which found that the aid system overall does not discriminate against any departments. "They found the distribution of money system was fairly equitable," Smolin says...
...this year with the first stages of what will be significant changes in the size and the shape of the school. "We've done our homework, we've gathered together all the information to make the proposals and we'll see more action next year," Moynihan says about the GSC this year. But the generalization could be applied across the GSAS. Although Rosovsky admits that "We're moving slowly, as usual," the analysis, preparation and discussion of administrators and professors are a vigorous reaction to changes in the "real world" which have altered the face of Harvard graduate education...