Graduate and Professional Student Council Announces War on University Administration

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In a shocking move, the Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) announced last week that they would take the next steps in a war declaration against Texas A&M University administration. The announcement points to the lack of preferential treatment to graduate students in the school’s plans to reopen for the fall as the reason for the declaration.

“We are getting the same instruction time as undergraduates even though our classes are more pertinent to our future careers. Our relationships with our professors will suffer with less instruction time,” said GPSC President Nida Hanson. “How can we expect our grades to be inflated with less interaction time?”

Graduate students not involved with the GPSC seem conflicted with the announcement. “We already experience competent and personalized advising, professors that actually care about us, designated graduate-only spaces on campus, smaller classes, and extreme grade inflation. This declaration seems a little overboard,” said Corey Gillespie, a second-year graduate student in the Department of Psychology. Undergraduate voices have echoed the sentiments shared by Gillespie.

University officials could not be reached for comment. Without full support from the graduate student community, this declaration appears to be dead on arrival.

— Crygon