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...defiance of Yale President Richard C. Levin, GESO will hold an unofficial "election" of its own on April 6, according to Gordon Lafer, spokesperson for the Federation of University Employees...
...Lafer said the GESO wants to follow the exampleof graduate student unions that have achievedadministrative recognition without resorting tolegal means...
...Lafer described the 1350 GESO members--about 60percent of all graduate students--as "not verypolitical but fed up with the disrespectful waythe administration treats...
...GESO has strong faculty support, accordingto Lafer. One group of professors is circulating apetition calling for a written agreement betweenthe administration and the GESO, Lafer said...
...Lafer said undergraduate reaction has beenmixed, however. "Many of them don't have enoughinformation. TAs have been explaining it to theirsections...I think there's a lot of[undergraduate] support [for the GESO]," he said...