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...administrators also discussed the situation of graduate students and less than half-time students who need financial aid, Richard A. Kraus, associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said yesterday...
...protection. In the Midwest the truckers disrupted deliveries of gas and diesel oil for stations in eight states. After independents blocked fuel storage depots in Green Bay, Wis., Governor Lee Dreyfus declared a state of emergency, and police ordered the line of trucks removed. Said Dreyfus Aide Bill Kraus: "The truckers found the aorta and put their thumb on it, but the gas is now going everywhere again...
Several administrators are trying to analyze the drop in the number of applications especially among minorities and the consequences of accepting more than 25 per cent of the applicant pool. Kraus and Suzanne M. Lipsky, assistant to the dean for student affairs in the GSAS, blame the tight job market and rising college costs for the drop in applications but they say the drop in some minority applications resulted mainly because of new methods of defining minorities...
...true" hispanics, an increase the statistics mask. Similarly Native American applicants dropped because to qualify as Native American this year an applicant must satisfy National Bureau of Indian Affairs standards and possess a tribal classification. Nevertheless, the decline in Asian American applicants remains a mystery to Lipsky and to Kraus who speculates it is simply "ordinary fluctuation...
...drop in the quantity of graduate students may or may not lead to a drop in the quality. With fewer applicants to choose from, the school can't always be as selective as before about qualifications and may not be choosing from the best college seniors. But, Kraus points out that with fewer students the school can devote more time and resources to each one, maintain its excellent placement record and ease the pressure on its finances. Kraus adds he only has worries about the quality of students in two departments...