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With a title like “Grad Students Should Grow Up,” I very much doubt that the comment by Travis R. Kavulla ’06 against graduate student unionization is going to persuade many readers (Comment, March 12). Still, one would hope that the author of such an essay would at least be conversant with the basic issues at hand. This doesn’t seem to be the case...
Kavulla also trivializes graduate students’ concerns, without ever telling readers what those concerns are. Since he doesn’t mention them, I will. Across the nation, grad students complain of sparse and unequal wages, expensive and hard-to-find housing, nominal health-care, the absence of child-care, a lack of grievance procedures, no office space, fuzzy job descriptions, inadequate training, professorial power-tripping and crushing work loads...
Kavulla’s suggestion that grad students are not “real” workers is particularly humorous in this regard, since TAs and research assistants are currently recognized as employees under federal labor law, and Yale’s TAs have been warmly embraced by their co-strikers in Locals 34 and 35. Equally misleading is his claim that Yale’s grad students are all “well on their way to professorships.” As US News & World Report has pointed out, due to recent trends in the academic labor...
...course, if Yale’s grad students were truly apprentices, working in a guild system, then they’d all have some assurance of gainful employment upon finishing their degrees. At present, Yale University makes no such guarantee...
...university that places the most students in grad schools or high paying jobs is not necessarily the best university. Harvard, arguably one of the best universities in the world, devotes many resources to small and obscure departments that are important and worthy of funding even though they do not create as many future investment bankers as economics...