The Yale Daily News, covering an anti-immigrant initiative for Connecticut, implicitly demonstrates a point all too often absent from its news coverage and its staff editorials: GESO's struggle to improve the working conditions of graduate students is crucial to the health of the University: While the bill was introduced as an initiative to strengthen homeland security, both Yale and GESO officials expressed concern that it would pose an unnecessary burden on international students at the University. GESO Chairwoman Mary Reynolds GRD '07 said her group plans to publicly oppose the legislation and asked Yale President Richard Levin to use his position to help prevent the bill's passage. "I think it's an anti-immigrant bill, and I don't think that driver's licenses should be taken away from people who live and work in this state," Reynolds said. "It will force them to apply and reapply for licenses, which will put undue pressure on the motor vehicle departments." Levin said the University is doing its best to oppose the measure by lobbying legislators in Hartford. "We're working against it," Levin said. "Obviously, it won't be good for our foreign students." ...This issue marks the second time in recent months that Levin and GESO have expressed mutual concern over government policies affecting international students. This winter, both sides called on Congress to scale back heightened visa requirements instituted in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. If Levin lobbied as hard to protect the rights of his graduate students on visa reform as he has to curtail the rights of his graduate students to organize, we'd be in business.