I particularly like the part where i'm explicitly told that i suck. yeah.
kat.
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Graduate Aid Initiative
And on February 21, the Provost’s Office announced that the
Graduate Aid Initiative will extend to doctoral students in
the Divinity School. In addition, the University will provide
nearly $5 million in new support over the next five years for
current doctoral students in the Humanities, Social Sciences,
and Divinity.By 2013, the University will provide graduate
students with an estimated $13 million annually in new support.
This new model sends a clear signal: the best and brightest
students will be supported throughout their doctoral
studies—and they will be able to complete their degrees as
expeditiously as possible.
http://beta.uchicago.edu/features/20080225.shtml
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i'm sorry, but as a grad student in the social sciences, i actually think the university has some reason to applaud itself. i mean, they've done more for grad students than many other universities i know of, and there have actually been pretty massive improvements in grad life since i first came here. i'm not saying there isn't more that can be done (like raising TA salaries), but maybe it would hurt to acknowledge the positive things that have already occurred (like creating more summer fellowships and allowing departments to admit fewer students in return for increasing the stipends of current students).
I read the cited web page in its entirety and was unable to find any mention at all of your sucking.
"Explicitly" (like "literally") is not an intensifier.
Perhaps if the loudest voices in this campaing (yes, even second-tier grad students working multiple jobs--like me) take a little more care to speak out intelligently, the university administration may have a little more intellectual respect for us.
But hey, what do I know? I'm just a critical reader of texts.
i second mr. dingbat (and anon): you guys are never going to be get the university to listen to you if you can't formulate a consistent, coherent message. so far, i've seen this campaign act in ways that, at best, are erratic, and at worse, are undemocratic. for instance, the "survey" you guys put out there was only distributed on a limited number of listserves (such as the gsu-internal listhost), and was only forwarded on to the rest of the graduate student body *one day* before the end of the survey deadline. this seems to be just one example of how you've actively chosen to mis-represent the majority of graduate student concerns, and frankly i'm tired of it. either get a real campaign together, or stop complaining.
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