Mansfield called this tactic a "nasty trick."
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The change in policy aims at improving the entire Ph.D. advising system. The motion follows much debate regarding the quality of graduate student life that lead to changes in the financial aid policy last spring.
Christine M. Korsgaard, professor of philosophy, objected to the additional workload that the third signature would add to the burdens already placed on the average Faculty member.
Most Faculty members expressed support for the signature's potential to improve the overall dissertation process and not just the final outcome.
The new policy would also require that two of the three Faculty members signing the dissertation be members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Lewis then opened a discussion of a report by the committee on advising and counseling. The report released in January uses data from the 1997 senior survey to make recommendations for improving the undergraduate advising system.
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