Both the
student and the student's committee have considerable latitude in meeting
departmental and Graduate School requirements. When a waiver of a departmental
requirement or suspension of a departmental regulation is desired, however, the
student should transmit the request with a recommendation for action, to the
Graduate Studies Committee. A written statement of the decision
of the Graduate Studies Committee
will be sent to the Department Chair, members
of the Advisory Committee, and all members of the departmental graduate
faculty. Decisions of the Graduate Studies Committee in such matters can
be overruled only through action of the departmental graduate faculty. A
meeting of the departmental graduate faculty will be called by the Chair of the
Graduate Studies Committee to act on an appeal of such a decision when
requested in writing by five members of the graduate faculty. The student must
make appeals within 10 days of the decision by the Graduate Studies
Committee.