Word: smolin
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...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...
...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...
...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...
Some graduate students disagree with Kraus's analysis, however. Lee Smolin, a member of the Graduate Student Council, said yesterday, "The real question is whether Harvard is really democratic or whether you have to have money to pursue higher education here...
...excellent he raises these questions, though it's interesting that the driving force behind his review is money--the Faculty is spending a higher and higher proportion of money on GSAS, and they can't keep it up," Smolin said...