Legal care is as important in our society as health care. Many of our graduate students are married and some have legal problems with the university itself. Many of the problems that graduate students bring to our organization require the giving of legal advice. Having a legal counsel on retainer would greatly facilitate our ability to aid those students. Moneys to promote interdepartmental social and intellectual activities.
Graduate students are among the most isolated group on campus.
We almost never have the time or opportunity to leave the confines of our labs or offices. This situation is detrimental to our well being both socially in developing as human beings and intellectually in our development as well rounded scholars. Moneys to subsidize child care. If we are successful, this service will likely be too expensive for most graduate students to take advantage of. We believe that partially subsidizing such costs is an appropriate use of our activity fees.