COLLOQUY

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It's bad enough when students labor under the kinds of pressure and abuse we've been reading about in these communiqués. It's even worse when the student depends, financially, upon the situation in which he or she is working. I've personally seen cases where a student depended upon an abusive mentor for both his/her degree AND his/her income, because the assignment in the lab (or the research center) was a work-study job as well as a dissertation opportunity. Perhaps that kind of double jeopardy should be addressed, specifically.

Also -- with all those students working away in the lab, who gets first authorship (or ANY authorship) credits on publications that arise from "their" work? I've personally seen heads of departments and directors of research centers sneak into the office early, on a day when a manuscript was being mailed, and re-type the title page, putting their own name on as first author, even though they did little or none of the actual work contained therein.

-- Anonymous (posted 10/27, 1:10 p.m., E.S.T.)

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