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Saving I-House may save GSB

I would like to add my voice to the loud chorus of graduates who are happy and relieved that International House will remain ("Chicago Journal," June/00). However, some of my reasons are different: I believe the Graduate School of Business will be better off.

As someone who spent two years at the GSB, I can state categorically that it was I-House that got me through. The GSB had students who cared only about how much money they made at their next job, a generally indifferent faculty, and an administration which cared only about its own agenda.

My views were not unusual. The first time Business Week surveyed students, GSB students in the class after mine gave the GSB horrible reviews, ranking Chicago literally dead last of all the student groups surveyed. The overall ranking plummeted, leading the administration, for the first time, to consider how they treated students and to establish LEAD and other programs.

It is really disgraceful (but not surprising) that the GSB would eye the prime real estate and convince the University administration to let I-House deteriorate until they could find some excuse to knock down the beautiful building. Happily, the less greedy have prevailed. Now, the GSB should work to ensure a successful I-House, one in which GSB and other students will thrive. The GSB will be better for it.

Debby Prigal, MBA'87
Washington, DC



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