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After years of bad press, complaints and a law suit against the Hearst Corporation, Condé Nast has decided to "reform" its internship program starting this semester. We say "reform" and not reform, because the changes don't do much to fix the broken system. In fact, the changes just prove how unfortunate the whole situation is.

Considering the fact that we're veterans of unpaid internships, and think the whole system has turned abusive, any news of reform should have us all excited—especially the news of a stipend. (The Atlantic Media Company's Fellowship Program is paid, though hardly a fortune.) But, to us, these new mandates, which a "few sources" explained to Fashionista's Dhani Mau, should have been the norm for years. Here's the new order, per Mau:

•Interns aren’t allowed to stay at the company for more than one semester per calendar year unless granted special clearance by Human Resources.

• Interns are required to do an orientation with HR where they are told to contact them if they are working unreasonably long hours or are mistreated.

• Interns can only work until 7pm and their security badges will actually be modified so that they won’t work after 7pm–meaning they won’t be able to get back into the building after 7 (making any late-afternoon errands or pickups particularly stressful)

• Interns are given stipends (around $550 for the semester)

• Interns have to receive college credit to be eligible for an internship.

• Interns will have to have official mentors

• Interns are only allowed to work on tasks related to the job at hand and no personal errands

Though we appreciate the gesture, this feels empty. First, that stipend is very small. Most of these magazines are in New York City, where $550 barely covers a semester's worth of unlimited Metro cards. But beyond money, these interns felt so abused that they wouldn't go to HR if they felt "mistreated." And, eager interns need to be kept away from their desks after 7pm? These things should be implicit, not part of some kind of revolutionary reform. But, that is the type of abuse that these unpaid workers have been subjected to.