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...Tigers were followed by Cornell (893), Penn (894), Columbia (895), Brown (899), Dartmouth (916), and Yale...
...after last weekend’s disappointing split—the loss to Columbia was the Crimson’s first league defeat since April 21, 2002—a welcome showing...
What would a week without Teaching Fellows (TFs) be like? We no longer have to wonder—all we have to do is ask our peers at Columbia and Yale, where non-science graduate teaching assistants are on strike this week fighting for their right to unionize. While we sympathize with the demands of graduate students at these schools, we feel that unionization is not the best way to solve the problems inherent in the current system for both undergraduates and graduate students. Instead, universities should proactively enact changes to improve the way TFs are paid and the responsibilities...
Unionization at Columbia and Yale is popular among non-science graduate students largely due to salary issues. However, the National Labor Review Board has decided that graduate students do not have the right to unionize because they are primarily students, not employees. Consequently, the only way graduate students feel they can secure pay raises is by pressuring the university into letting them unionize. Surprisingly, this unionization movement has not caught on at Harvard, although health benefits and overall salaries at Columbia and Yale appear to be higher...
...creation of a union would no doubt address the grievances of graduate students at Yale and Columbia. A union could advocate on behalf of TFs to an unprecedented extent. Additionally, the university-wide common pay scales that the graduate student organizations are calling for would be a marked improvement over flat payment schemes that are currently used, which give TFs little incentive to improve or invest more time in their teaching. Unionization could also fix financial aid for graduate students, the terms of which in many instances require them to teach sections. No undergraduate should have to endure a section...