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Article: Students opposed department changes.(Nation)(Economics Department, University of Notre Dame)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- April 9, 2004
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After Notre Dame's economics professors, no one was affected more directly by the splitting of the economics department than the university's graduate students.
Having chosen the department for its distinctive focus, almost to a person, they publicly opposed the split. In the year leading up to it, they organized in an attempt to make their opposition known.
Economics doctoral candidate Edward Nik-Khah told NCR, "I can remember weeks where we spent much of our free time drafting these positions." He said that he could think of only one student "who was less opposed to the split than the rest."
Another doctoral candidate, Thomas Scheiding, ...