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Written by: Youeal Abera, Staff Writer   Revisions in the cards for SFU’s practices relating to research personnel At the latest Graduate Student Society (GSS) Council meeting, Council spoke with members of SFU’s senior administration about students’ frustrations towards SFU’s policies on research personnel. Two administrators spoke at the meeting: Dugan O’Neil, SFU associate vice-president, research, and Sandi de Domenico, SFU associate vice-president, human resources. They highlighted that SFU’s current employment practices make it so that there are 1,700 grant-funded research personnel. These personnel, instead of being employed by SFU, work under principal investigators, who are the leading researchers of…

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