October 8, 1999

Telephone Hotline Offers Help to Graduate Students in Distress

Angry with your adviser? Desperate about your dissertation? Call 1-877-GRADHLP.

That's the number of a new telephone hotline set up to help graduate students in crisis.

It's the brainchild of Nick Repak, executive director of Grad Resources, which he began 10 years ago to help students adjust to the demands and life-style changes of graduate school.

Last year's suicide of a Harvard University Ph.D. student (The Chronicle, October 23, 1998), gave