Bargaining again
It seems that some University administrators have already forgotten the Graduate Employees Organization strike late in the winter term of 1996. Otherwise, the University's counterproposal presented at the graduate contract negotiations last Tuesday, which made no changes to the current contract language regarding wages for Graduate Student Instructors, would have been much more reasonable.
Starr witness
For all of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's self-professed "unyielding faith" and respect for the sanctity of the judicial process, his appearance as the star witness in Thursday's House Judiciary Committee's impeachment hearings did nothing but taint that very sanctity and spark bitter partisan rancor in an already partisan hearing. The resignation of Starr's ethics adviser Sam Dash on Friday, spoke more for itself than did any of Starr's testimony, which offered no new evidence, information or explanation, but rather aggressively advocated the Republican call for impeachment.
Letters to the Editor
Appeasing the angry GSIs
I read in the news the other day that a bunch of angry GSIs out at the University of California are planning a big revolt. It will paralyze eight college campuses and affect tens of thousands of students. The insurrection promises to be serious - papers will go ungraded, sections will go untaught, and material may go unlearned. To my horror, I learned later that some of their chalk-wielding brethren are even lurking on this campus, plotting a cruel and exacting retaliation against the University for laughing at their simple requests for more pay.
11-23-98
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