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Like the fact that despite their repeated low finishes in the admittedly difficult Division I carnivals, the skiers have a great time. Their weekends usually begin on Wednesday, and as Rand says, "It's like a five-day party. We have a great time. Anyone that does work gets yelled at. I learned not to bring books last year when I brought them one weekend and then lost them...
...policy to punish Sylvia Gallagher, a shop steward in Eliot House, for union-related activities. Last spring, Gallagher led a noon-time walkout of members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union for an emergency union meeting. When the University slapped Gallagher with a five-day suspension and docked her two hours pay, she filed a grievance against Harvard with the National Labor Relations Board. Several weeks later, Harvard offered Gallagher only a part-time summer job, that Gallagher's legal agent says could have downgraded her employment status...
...NLRB grievance came after the University slapped Gallagher with a five-day suspension and docked her two hours pay for leading a noon-time walk-out of Eliot House dining hall employees for an emergency union meeting on June...
Among those on hand for the five-day, $3 million bash were, for example, Ernest and Audrey Wiesen of Wauwatosa, Wis. They went to work for Carter after he gave a talk at their daughter's school, and when they received an invitation, they asked themselves why not-and saved $600 to make the journey. Postal Worker Ginny Scott of Santa Ana, Calif., took her Las Vegas vacation money and used it for the Inauguration instead. Said she: "I would have lost it in Vegas anyway." Then there was the group of maids from Detroit, Tulsa, New York...
Student Unrest. While overseas adventures are popular, the schools hope that the January courses can also further students' serious interests. At N.Y.U., for example, Professor Henry Mullish attracts about 150 "highly motivated" graduate students and fellow teachers for his five-day course on computer science. Since many nonscientific fields in which they work call for statistical analysis, Mullish attempts to teach them the rudiments of computer programming while dispelling their "innate distrust" of the machines. Says Mullish: "I win them over by teaching them a modicum of contempt for computers...