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Local resident George U. Kucewicz, a member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the late 1960s, was on campus this weekend to observe the formation of a new national student activist organization. in Sever and Emerson Halls...
About 350 students, representing three campus activist groups, protested for over three hours in a rally to ask Harvard to cut its ties with overseas sweatshops, to demand higher wages for University employees and to urge the Faculty to take a firmer stand against sexual assault...
Still, the protesters have maintained the relatively polite demeanor of a movement that is, after all, an extracurricular activity. Rodolfo Palma-Lulion, an anti-sweatshop activist at the University of Michigan, says of last month's sit-in: "The point was to show that students are not apathetic, that we care deeply about this issue, then go back to class...
When she entered graduate school at UCLA five years ago to pursue a Ph.D. in English, Connie Razza, 26, hardly expected to be a campus activist. But she also didn't expect a workload like this: for one undergraduate literature course this semester, Razza gives lectures, runs a discussion section, grades papers and exams, and holds office hours in a basement room where 40 other teaching assistants share 29 desks and one computer. For 30 hours a week of such labor, she earns about $1,400 a month--which doesn't even cover her rent, tuition, books and car payments...
...campus realities: many profs shirk face-to-face, small-group instruction and dump teaching responsibilities onto graduate students. Last month the Supreme Court upheld an Ohio law that prescribes a minimum number of hours that professors at state universities must devote to teaching. Says U.C. Berkeley grad-student activist Ricardo Ochoa: "We do about 60% of the contact with undergraduates. Our working conditions are the undergraduates' learning conditions." For activists and apolitical students alike, getting professors into the classroom would be a radical cause indeed...