Departments not Represented: Astronomy, Business Economics, Chemical Physics, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Comparative Literature, Economics, English, Government, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Organizational Behavior, Political Economy and Government, Romance Languages, Study of Religion.

1. Announcements
   • GSC Conference Grants: Winter 1998 Recipients have been announced. The deadline for applications for Spring 1998 Conference Grants and Summer Research Grants is May 4.
   • GSC Meeting with President Rudenstine, Provost Fineberg, Dean Wolff, and Dean Gill: Monday, April 13, 1998. Please contact the GSC with your concerns or if you would like to attent.
   • Student Interest Rates Going up? Not if another NAGPS lobby can prevent it. A House subcommittee is debating whether to repeal a legislated lowering in the interest rate for student loans. You can help get the student voice out!
   • Next GSC Meeting: Wednesday, April 1st (No joke)
   
   
2. Matters Arising from the minutes of February 1998 meeting. None.
   
   
3. Committee Updates
   • Committee on Graduate Education (CGE). The report of the Committee's new financial aid policy should be released shortly.
   • FAS Library Committee. Stan Wong mentioned a number of student concerns that the Library Committee is discussing. Among them are longer hours, the faster binding of journals, and standardization of photocopying costs among different libraries. Please contact him with your comments.
   • Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR). Carl Elkin reported on the votes the ACSR advised on in the past year.
   
   
4. Elections
   • Treasurer Special Election: Laurie Littlepage (Medical Sciences) was elected Treasurer for the remainder of the academic year, ending on June 30.
   • Nominations for 1998-99 GSC Officers and Committee Representatives (elections will be held at the meeting on April 1st): Nominations will remain open until the election. Currently, the nominees are Nick Dechman (President) and Laurie Littlepage (Treasurer).
   
   
5. Treasurer's Report. Laurie's first act as Treasurer was to submit the Current allocations and Budget as well as last month's student group request allocations.
   
6. 1998 NAGPS Northeast Regional Conference at Harvard. This conference, hosted by the Harvard GSC and organized by our own Elgin Eckert, will run March 13-15, 1998. Follow the link for more information.
7. Advising and Treatment of Graduate Students
   • Draft Proposal and Open Letter to President Rudenstine
   • Draft Statement of Graduate Student Rights
   Both of these documents were presented to the GSC by Paul Callan. After discussion and a few minor changes, they were ratified unanimously.

8. The Future of Hemenway Gymnasium remains in the balance as the Offices of Admissions and Financial Aid may not get the lease on its current location in Byerly Hall renewed. A plan to move these offices into Hemenway has been discussed, but nowhere near the approval stage.

Respectfully Submitted,
Matthew Leingang
GSC Secretary