>>Eh, this is an MA, not a PhD. They should do it with two
>>professors, or with a retired prof.
>
>After a week or two, the Graduate School got back to my advisor and
>told her, "That's up to your department chair, we don't have specific
>rules about it here." Since the other still-available member of my
>prospective committee is the department chair, it looks like
>we're back on--although, that said, we still haven't figured out a
>time when the three of us can all meet at once. We have more
>latitude, though, since without our erstwhile third member (who was
>only available until the end of March), we can look at doing it
>sometime in the first couple weeks of April. Which would frankly be
>fine with me, because there's a lot to review.

I'm very glad they at least saw there was bullshit and are trying to get around it!

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