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Wolff was followed by Robert G. McCloskey, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government. McCloskey seconded Woff's motion for approval of the plan and said that the provisions for guaranteed financial aid would help raise grad student morale, as well as improve the University's position in competitive recruiting of students...
...Financial insecurity contributes to the low state of graduate student morale," McCloskey said. "The morale of problem is a serious one, and this one way to cope with...
...McCloskey added that the guaranteed aid would not add much to the grad school's net cost, since most qualified students currently get aid during all their years at GSAS. "This would just regularize what is the state of affairs anyway," he said. "Why not turn it into a guarantee and save the worry...
...McCLOSKEY'S proposals, contends the Wolff Committee, would not cost the University any extra money. A drop in enrollment, coupled with a rule forbidding both grants and teaching fellow positions, would provide extra funds and better means of distributing them. With a year by year twenty percent decrease in the size of classes, the committee argues that scholarship and could be extended progressively through the five-year period...
...Wolff Report acknowledges, the McCloskey plan assumes that the overlap between scholarship holders and teaching fellows is great although there are not enough statistics to prove it. If it is not large, the money might again have to be taken from the Faculty budget...