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[email protected] THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW GRADUATE STUDENT Volume 5, No. 6 December 1993 Free ~~g~?!~~d Student Support for Yomi Falters and Christina Pretto his GRE score was substandard, and told him to get OF THE ADVOCATE STAFF a second master's degree in economics. After Yomi receiv~d a ma_ster's degree from City College, While several student groups have rallied behind Grossman adrmtted him to the program. Michael Yomi, a second level economics student Grossman h.as denied Yomi' s charges of racism in who has refused to take the department's first exam the department, and said that once Yomi was admit on grounds of_racial bias, their momentum appears ted to the program, he was "treated like any other to have lost steam as Yomi has yet to offer a solution student." to the administration. Many groups at the graduate center have rallied .Over the summer, Yorn) was notified that he was to Yomi's support. As early as September,the Doc bemg terminated from the program because he had toral Studen~ Counc~l, while citing no specific ex not t~ken the fir~t exam.