The purpose of the motion is to enhance the diversity of our graduate student body in recruiting particularly well-qualified applicants. Our demonstrated commitment to this objective will make it easier for us to secure external funding for those we admit. I plan to do that by March 14. If you have corrections to be made, please let me know in writing by March 13. She reminds you all that this is an important day in students' lives and tak es relatively little time out of yours.
Academic regalia is provided free of charge.
To order yours, call Mary Ellen Martin in the Campus Store, 545-2619 before April 24. If you would like to spend a semester or a year away from Amherst, perhaps in exciting Lowell, see about arranging an exchang e with a Lowell faculty member. Contact your alter egos at other campuses, and your chair, to get the process in motion. If you are working on field statements or a dissertation prospectus, come to the first meeting of our writers' group. Any questions, call Amy H . or Claire at 549-8999.