As a grad student advisor, and as a part-time director of an underfunded museum, I see a lot of unpaid internships. The best way to "defend" the practice, as I see it, is to balance it against what a student would pay if he or she took a course in museum practice, instead of taking an unpaid internship. Just my 2=A2 Ivy Fleck Strickler Phone 215-895-1637 Drexel University Fax 215-895-4917 Nesbitt College of Design Arts [log in to unmask] Philadelphia, PA 19104 "Never forget that life is like a Fellini movie, and you're getting to see it for free=8A"