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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences report dissatisfaction with many of the issues that plague their counterparts at Yale, from uncertainty about the availability of teaching positions to the lack of prescription coverage in their health insurance. Although I believe that a TF union provides an important way to reach progress on these issues, I acknowledge that reasonable people can disagree about the need for or advisability of such a union. What disappointed me at Yale, though, was the way those opposed to a union expressed their disagreement. The negative environment I described above did not need to accompany...
Faculty, too, should promote their graduate students' best interests by listening seriously and respectfully if TFs discuss unionizing. Yale professors frequently claimed that a union would get in the way of positive mentoring relationships, yet they worked to destroy any chance for positive relationships by scaring their students into submission. A TF union would not pit TFs against professors unless professors themselves did the pitting...
Harvard social politics also function in such a way that there exists a fine, almost indistinguishable line between the Good Guys and the Martyrs. The easiest way to attain Good Guy status at Harvard is to suffer some egregious affront--oftentimes in the form of a failed election attempt or an unfulfilled goal. As such, we fill our void of Good Guys with an overflowing reserve of Martyrs. Martyrs, after all, are safe to praise. They pose no threat to our own ambition, we can safely embrace them with compassion and bemoan the injustices that have been committed against them...
...approach every game the same way," freshman winger Kenny Turano said. "We aren't going to change our game because their goalie has been doing well. Like always we'll try to get to the net every chance...
Looming large after this season is the October expiration date of the collective bargaining agreement. There is no way that over half of the owners can put their names on the dotted line of a system that allows the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Orioles, Braves, Red Sox and now the Rangers to spend them in oblivion. These smaller markets cannot permit themselves to be a de facto minor league operation for the big clubs, developing talent until they become available free agents. Yes, it's possible for a team like Oakland to compete, but GM Billy Beane has been nothing short...