As I’ve mentioned here before, the Graduate Council exists to get students out of their labs for a while, listen to their concerns, and try to address those concerns by bringing them to the attention of the appropriate administrators. In conjunction with the Senate’s campaign to gather input from students, we are looking for comments on those issues that pertain more to graduate students. The Graduate Council and the Student Senate Academic Affairs committee are concentrating on the subject of additional speech instruction for those foreign TAs that require it.