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...student unionization effort has intensified at the Amherst campus in recent months. UMass students elected student government co-presidents Ellen Gavin and Henry Ragin on a unionization platform last fall, and the organizing project has focused on organizing students into various councils centered on issues of dormitory housing, department curriculum and special interest groups...
...militants have proposed obstructive picket lines and the disruption of Commencement ceremonies and other University events. However, the militants seem to have gained influence within the coalition since its representatives met with President Bok on May 17. After that meeting, Luther M. Ragin Jr. '76, commented: "The more moderate members of the coalition like myself have seen that the tactics of discussion, leafletting, and picketing we have advocated don't work with the University...
...They have the same types of complaints on wages as do the printers, and there is the second factor of union solidarity," Luther M. Ragin Jr. '76, said yesterday. Ragin is acting as a liason between all organizations supporting the printer's strike. Union officials were unavailable for comment...
Should the typists vote to join local 300 and agree to support the strike, the outside company that prints The Gazette probably would support the strike. Unionized printers around Boston have been respecting the printer's strike at Harvard by turning down University printing contracts, Ragin said...
Cracks & Leaks. By the time the field reached Cat Cay, 441 miles from Miami, eleven boats were already out of the race. Ragin' Cajun gave up with clutch trouble. Aboard Allied GX, a geyser of steam and water suddenly shot up from the ruptured bilges. The crew watched sadly from a life raft as the $140,000 boat sank in 600 fathoms...