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Thursday, February 05, 2004
Adding to Berkeley's incompetence vis a vis the Fedex scandal, they deliberately kept the applicants in the dark while they tried to get the DOE to accept the applications. The applicants didn't find out about this until Tuesday-- almost two months after the University learned there was a problem in December!
The 30 applicants, all UC Berkeley doctoral students, found out about the error at a “shocking and terrifying” meeting Tuesday afternoon, said applicant Carl Freire.It's shameful that the University has been so concerned about avoiding blame, rather then doing the right thing. By not informing the applicants, they denied them weeks that could be used to find other fellowships or make other plans. It seems probable that, if this problem had been resolved, they would never have told the Applicants at all. Their press release was over-planned to place blame on the DOE. Kudos to the Daily Cal for closing with the essential problem: it's not so much the money as the prestige. And that's difficult to make up for. “What bothers me the most is that there is no way to get around the prestige of putting ‘Fulbright Fellow’ on our resumes,” Seawright said. “Half of us could have had it, but now we never will know.”Email This Post! |
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