Word: vacationers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Graduate students in the Chemistry Department take the intensity of their lives for granted. While undergraduates enjoy three long months of summer vacation, their graduate counterparts say they are lucky if they can escape the lab for two weeks.
So do these changes help make up for a lack of summer vacation and the long hours that graduate students complain about?
LOW VACATION INFLATION Getting ready to load up the kids and dog for that family trip? AAA last week released its 1999 summer-travel study, and the average daily cost for a vacationing family of four is $213, up only 1% from last year. The most affordable destinations are in...
Faculty Council members said they were pleased to give students a concession they had been clamoring for--not to mention an extra vacation day for teaching faculty as well.
Undergraduate Council members who worked for the change said students would gladly exchange a study day for a vacation day. And, they added, the change shows that the Faculty does sometimes listen to student voices.