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...vast waste of energy and general disregard for its own repute, the Graduate Student Council (GSC) decided early this week to ask its constituents the same questions posed at last week’s Faculty meeting, at which the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted a lack of confidence in University President Lawrence H. Summers. What the GSC didn’t ask was whether any of these questions even applied to grad students...
...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 of the GSC...
...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...
Trodd added she was hoping to invite Summers to meet with the GSC in the near future...