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Such a strike would be unlikely, of course, but this spring it started to become a possibility as office and clerical workers at the Med School and in Cambridge began to discuss unionization...
...Harvard graduates seem successful," Collier said, "because 80 per cent of the pre-med students here get into medical schools and there's always about five Rhodes scholars. But statistics like this don't tell you how to account for their success...
...technical workers showed signs that they would no longer tolerate Harvard's employment conditions. Efforts to league with District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America surfaced at both the Medical School and in Cambridge. Technical and clerical workers in the Medical Area--most of them at the Med School, the School of Public Health, and the Dental School--are already affiliated with District 65 and will soon petition the National Labor Relations Board for union certification...
...grind for high grades, many pre-med students give up extracurricular activities and a normal social life in favor of almost unbroken stretches of studying. "People have become so obsessed with what grade they are getting that what they are learning becomes secondary," says James Young, 20, a Duke University junior. "I know a lot of people who started out pre-med and would have made excellent doctors, but who dropped out because of the competition and the grades." Those who stay on keep closemouthed about what they have learned. Shared studying among pre-meds is rare; a student...
...Lobbing. Says Carol Asada, 22, a pre-med junior at U.C.L.A. and president of Medicus, a pre-med student organization: "There's a lot of hostility and jealousy among students who are getting top scores." Complains another premed: "They're afraid if they tell you something you may get a better score than theirs." Few friendships survive such pressures. "One person might have a copy of last year's exams in a course and absolutely won't show it to anyone else," moans another Duke student...