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...nature of the controversy appeared to change after the initial protest. K-School students--many of them mid-career bureaucrats studying areas involving problem-solving--began to debate the controversy through meetings and discussions rather than protest. Their position had initially mirrored that of the undergraduate protesters. But to many students in the one-year MPA program, resolving the controversy within the year became a matter of pride. The K-School students went out of their way to negotiate the issue...
...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...
Smolin cites student-Faculty relations as another problem in the GSAS. "There is not nearly enough attention from professors and thesis advisers, especially in the humanities where you haven't proved yourself until your work is published in your last year," Smolin explains. "Invariably Harvard professors obey the tradition of ignoring students," says Susan Napier, a graduate student in East Asian studies. But Smolin feels the administration is aware of the problem. He says his discussions with Keenan reveal that Keenan is "genuinely concerned with the problem." The decreased size of the school may lead to more Faculty-student contact...
Although Rosovsky's report mentions that outside sources of financial backing for graduate students are shrinking, especially in non-science areas, GSAS officials don't see financial aid to students as a pressing problem at the moment...