September 10, 2004

Graduate Students Who Should Leave School

To the Editor:

"A Week at Camp Dissertation" (The Chronicle, July 16) was dismal. A student's dissertation proposal should be reviewed with care and should, consequently, give the student a pretty good idea of where he is going with his work. A student's dissertation director should not be indifferent; I wonder if that many are, or if Sonja K. Foss is being self-serving. And graduate students should not need what sounds like remedial tutoring in how to think straight about the

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