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with the student's interests and also meets 
with the approval of the Department's 
Graduate Studies Committee. 
The flourishing of interdepartmental 
linkages across the OSU campus will 
inevitably lead to a more diverse 
interdisciplinary environment which we 
believe will provide further momentum 
for LIS/GIS. This area may be wide in 
scope and difficult to define, but it has 
certainly created a great deal of excitement 
in many different disciplines and provided 
the stimulus for reorienting and rethinking 
our existing disciplinary foci and 
boundaries. Since we are already losing 
the battle against many problems such as 
poverty and pollution, this reorientation 
and rethinking is essential if those of us 
in education are to contribute to the 
problems of the nineties. 
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