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During the hearing, the university will argue that NLRB precedent should be upheld concerning the classification of graduate students as employees, according to Thomas P. Conroy, acting director of public affairs at Yale...
...university will argue that the teaching done by graduate students is part of their educational process and therefore should not be considered employment as defined by the National Labor Relations act, Conroy says. Teaching is, in fact, required by Yale as a part of its graduate studies program...
...place where the newspaper arrived a day late and never before 9 a.m. I am an early riser, so the first two or three hours of my vacation mornings were spent getting the news from the likes of Maxwell, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Frank Conroy, Alice Adams, Stewart O'Nan, Charles Baxter--short stories and novels--and from Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, a memoir so rich it might be a novel...
...outline or sketch of a deeper (more crafted and layered) story that was being withheld from the reader and at the same time invited the reader's imagination to fill in the blanks. The stories in the news were no less interesting than the Oates story about Swimmers or Conroy's story about the curse of a mad father, but they were bare bones, hints. How could they be otherwise? If reporters had the license of artists, one would have been able to read the California cultists' last-minute thoughts as they slipped the plastic bags over their heads...
...lawyers are exploring a number of options, including civil-rights and breach-of-contract suits. But even without a lawsuit, their departure will undoubtedly force a sharp reexamination of the Citadel's "fourth class system," in which all knobs are subjected to a certain amount of hazing--a system Conroy, Citadel class of '67, described in his book as a "psychic rape." For one thing, even some important alumni are furious about the scandal. "Don't give us heritage and tradition and all that bull___," Hampton Walker, the head of the Citadel's alumni association, told the South Carolina Post...