Graduate Group Challenges GSA

The Graduate Student Organizing Committee will ask John P. Elder, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, to withdraw recognition of the Graduate Student Association until its membership is made "representative."

The first draft of a letter making this request on the grounds that the GSA does not represent student opinion was circulated for signatures at an open meeting of the Committee last night. The letter claims that the GSA does not respond to student opinion because members may re-elect themselves.

Afraid

"The GSA is afraid of us for some reason," Michael H. Schwartz, a graduate students, told the audience, "and they don't want to elect anyone new who might be influenced by us."

The GSOC is a new graduate organization created last month to provide an alternative to the GSA. Schwartz said that a number of graduate students asked the GSA to hold discussions of University involvement in the Vietnamese war, but were turned down.

Last night's meeting also considered four resolutions pertaining to on-campus recruiting for presentation to the Student-Faculty Advisory Council.

A preliminary vote indicated by a margin of 24 to 3 that those attending were strongly in favor of barring all war-connected recruiting from the campus, but an official vote will be made at a larger meeting. The opposition came from those favoring the end of all on-campus recruiting.