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...working with the SLAM campaign, spoke together to publicize AlliedBarton’s allegedly unfair policies toward worker unionization. Since the employees technically work for AlliedBarton and not Harvard, SEIU and SLAM plan on pressuring the University into applying its own pressure on the company to amend its practices. “Since we don’t have a union here, they [AlliedBarton] use intimidation,” according to Solano. “They say, ‘We’re not going to fire you for starting a union, but we’re going...
...grading policy according to a 2002 grade inflation survey, a recent Brown Daily Herald poll found that 70 percent of Brown undergraduates oppose the change.The Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS) is hosting a forum this afternoon in an effort to voice student opinion before the faculty votes to amend the grading system.Brown’s current curriculum, implemented in 1969, does not have distribution requirements and allows students to take courses pass/fail or with whole-letter grades.Brown’s College Curriculum Council proposed last semester to add pluses and minuses to the curriculum but agreed to hold...
...American officials will now work hard to sell the deal on Capitol Hill, where there?s been some skepticism from those who think it undermines nonproliferation treaties. Congress would have to amend two laws including a 52-year-old statute that prohibits sales of nuclear supplies to countries that do not agree to international standards. Singh must do a comparable sales job in India, where the nuclear program is a source of great national pride and any international inspection is regarded with wariness...
...that if you get them together in a room, they'll move onto the big picture." But the Tigers have already threatened to pull out of the Geneva talks after suspected paramilitary death squads kidnapped eight Tiger social workers on Jan. 29. For its part, the government wants to amend the truce, which it claims gives the Tigers too much freedom of movement. On that point, the Tigers won't give an inch...
...Faculty members may put a motion on the docket for any Faculty meeting. According to the rules of faculty procedure, professors have until 9:30 a.m. Monday to place a motion on the docket for the Feb. 28 meeting, and until noon on the following Monday to amend the motion...