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Yale University shut down yesterday as graduate students and non-administrative workers went on strike in support of the Graduate Employment Student Organization (GESO), according to Gordon Lafer, a GESO spokesperson...
...cleaning rooms, the secretaries and computer technicians aren't there, the dining halls are closed," Lafer said yesterday. "The TAs [teaching assistants] aren't teaching sections, the graduate students aren't attending classes [and] 150 undergraduate classes have been moved off campus to churches and cinemas...
According to Lafer, the major points ofcontention are teaching assistant salaries, whichat $6900 are approximately $4000 below the cost ofliving in New Haven, and the lack of an impartialgrievance committee for graduate students...
...Lafer, estimating that 3500 picketers turnedout yesterday, said of the situation, "this couldprobably all be settled in a day of good faithnegotiations. Basically the university has saidthat in principle they're opposed to signing acontract with...
...vast enterprises with equal measures of fierce family loyalty, business acumen, political sagacity and social awareness. They lived modestly, had their children educated in Europe, invested their earnings in new plants and won political favor by acquiring a reputation for public service. A grandson of an original Klabin, Horacio Lafer, 63, who is an active partner in the Klabin business enterprises today, has served as Brazil's Foreign Minister and Finance Minister, and amazed everyone in 1951 by balancing Brazil's budget...