Word: kavulla
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Travis R. Kavulla ’06 is an editorial editor...
...Noam B. Katz ’04, Travis R. Kavulla ’06, Zachary Z Norman ’04, Luke Smith ’04, Simon W. Vozick-Levinson ’06 and Andrew P. Winerman...
...Kavulla charges that, “Teaching Assistant (TA) unionization was an inane fantasy... until very recently.” In fact, graduate students have been bargaining successfully in higher education for over 30 years, and more than 20 percent of graduate employees across the country belong to a certified union...
...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...
...calls the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) a “cartel,” implies they’re a Communist-era front group, and complains about their “guerilla tactics.” Just what are these tactics? All Kavulla tells us is that GESO members have lobbied for their cause in dining halls, and attended Graduate Student Association (GSA) meetings, where they (gasp!) “control the discourse...