Regarding "Cost, space issues burden GS housing," (Wednesday, April 30, 2008)
Speculation about how the Housing Master Plan will affect graduate students has been widespread. But information provided by officials from the Housing Department at a recent info session indicates that the outcome will be far less benign than this article implies.
While it is true that officials from Housing predict that the current number of units supplied by the University will remain relatively flat while the Housing Master Plan is implemented over the next decade, the number of graduate students will not. Over the next 10 years, the Graduate School plans to grow by more than 10 percent. Currently, the University houses 78 percent of graduate students. After the Housing Master Plan is put in place, that figure will drop to 70 percent.
Simply put, there will not be a suitable number of beds to accommodate the steadily increasing population of graduate students.
The University often repeats a desire to see graduate students more fully integrated into the broader community. To demonstrate that such statements are more than mere lip service, the University should put its money where its mouth is and build additional housing for graduate students.
Anne Twitty GS
GSG press secretary
Living off campus is a better option than most people assume
Regarding "Cost, space issues burden GS housing," (Wednesday, April 30, 2008)
I found this article to be far too dismissive of the off-campus housing option. After the closure of Butler, the Lawrence Apartments will be the major on-campus residence for graduate students. These apartments exceed the needs of most students in terms of space and correspondingly exceed the means of most students in terms of rent.
They are also noisy, do not allow pets, have poor parking and, next year, will be two shuttles - with a transfer - away from campus.
I think more students should look into off-campus housing before blindly turning in their applications each spring and praying that they receive a spot.
Casey Ydenberg GS
Preceptors not perfect, but coverage badly overstates our flawsRegarding "Preceptors prepare to take charge," (Wednesday, April 30, 2008)
I was disappointed in The Daily Princetonian's recent coverage of the University's precepting system. There are certainly some graduate students who struggle with their precepting responsibilities, just as there are some undergraduate students who fail to prepare for and attend precepts. The majority of my colleagues and friends, however, take their precepting responsibilities very seriously and spend enormous amounts of time and energy preparing for precepts, grading papers, and meeting with students. The ‘Prince' suggests that lazy or ill-prepared preceptors are the norm instead of the exception. Does the ‘Prince' have any concrete evidence of this? Perhaps the ‘Prince' could try reporting on the average experience of precepts instead of picking extreme anecdotes.
Christine Percheski GS
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