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- 7 - Less fundamental, but still of consequence, is the matter of facilities. Our campus was developed basically for undergraduates. This seems quite compatible with an increasing number of graduate students. However, there may be additional services, other facilities, which will be needed by graduate students; for example, are there work rooms, cubical study areas etc. which might give a clear return in improved use of time? Certainly the library will have to become increasingly sophisticated in its services. Many of our graduate students are part-timers. Personally I have a prejudice which I shall confess against part-time academic work. It seems to me there is a feedback, a reinforcement, coming from emersion in a degree program which is lost for part-timers. On the other hand practical experience gained through work outside the University probably does enrich the degree program, especially in certain subjects. But in the months ahead we will need to be sensitive to the performance and the impact of part-time graduate candidates. We will need to watch drop-out rates, the quality of work done, the problems of counseling and class scheduling and so on. Hopefully my prejudice will prove to be just that, but possibly we will need to set up guidelines to determine how much outside activity is compatible with graduate work in each of our subject fields. I have already mentioned the new responsibility which the E.L.I. faces in assisting graduate students to improve their language facility. But the issue for the University as a whole may be more fundamental. Many of our graduate students come to us with a different balance of preparatio