Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Founded 75 years ago as the first student-run legal service organization in the country, the Harvard Law School Legal Aid Bureau occupies the first floor of an unimposing white house in a corner of the Law School campus...
Backed by AFSCME, the union has the resources--financial and legal--to match Harvard. AFSCME is leading the national drive to organize "pink collar" workers and is the leading union on issues of concern to these workers. Yet at Harvard, AFSCME has also shown a willingness to step back and let the workers organize and control their own fate. AFSCME has let the workers decide and that is part of the reason they should decide in its favor...
...Stanford, the graduate students' most recent run-in with the administration took place 15 years ago. Graduate school research assistants (R.A.'s), frustrated with low salariesand long hours, staged a walk-out and refused to resume work. The university took legal action against the R.A.'s, forcing them to return to work, says Mollie Goetz, student service officer at the graduate school...
Indeed, the Lord Chancellor (Peter Hopkinson), not realizing that his wife Iolanthe is still alive, wants to marry the delectable damsel himself. However, despite his formidable legal talent, he has been unable to find a loophole to allow him to marry his own dependent. Hopkinson enunciates this point with great aplomb, in a patter song about law and nightshirt-clad in a lament about love unrequited. Palsied by precedent, the lovelorn Chancellor agrees to permit any peer to marry Phyllis...
...National Labor Relations Act states that "it shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees." The University's tactics may in fact be legal, but they may also be violating the spirit of the law by implicitly intimidating University employees...