The YDN reports on a meeting of several dozen international students organized by GESO to mobilize for progressive visa reform: Sixteen students delivered short prepared speeches about their troubles with the visa process. Regulations instituted after Sept. 11, 2001 have slowed the visa process, making it difficult for foreign nationals studying in the United States to return to their universities after they have left the country. The speakers expressed both professional and personal frustrations they have faced because of visa uncertainty. Several teaching and research assistants said they have been unable to leave the United States to visit family or attend conferences pertinent to their fields because their ability to re-enter the country is not secure. Moderator Qin Qin GRD '05, a biomedical engineering student, said University President Richard Levin, Graduate School Dean Peter Salovey, and University Secretary Linda Lorimer were invited to the event. None were present at the event Thursday. This is, of course, not the first time this invitation has been declined. That obstinance remains shameful. Yale administrators, as Levin himself noted in the Chronicle of Higher Education last month, have a deep vested interest in the freedom of movement of all their students, even if Yale administrators don't have any trouble getting in and out of the country.