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...student unionization effort has intensified at the Amherst campus in recent months. UMass students elected student government co-presidents Ellen Gavin and Henry Ragin on a unionization platform last fall, and the organizing project has focused on organizing students into various councils centered on issues of dormitory housing, department curriculum and special interest groups...
...Gavin, a staff member of the organizing project and the student trustee representing the Amherst campus, said the project is working towards a goal of 25 councils before the formal creation of the union, scheduled for April...
...purpose of organizing the councils is to demonstrate the popularity of the unionization effort, Gavin said. "Approval of the union by the trustees depends on the strength of the organization," she said, adding, "recognition of the union on paper is meaningless unless you have a structure...
...Gavin P. Murphy...
...McDonough (whose brother John is chairman of the School Committee) to take over operations of the school. McDonough seemed to be an appropriate choice; a longtime Boston school administrator, he earned praise from both blacks and whites last year for his work in supervising the desegregation of Patrick F. Gavin Middle School. His selection did nothing to mollify antibusing forces. One of their leaders, City Council Member Louise Day Hicks, charged that the takeover "smacks of a totalitarian type of government." She joined others in declaring Friday "a day of mourning" for Southie's lost freedom and called...