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...union will ask the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for the right to hold a referendum, which, if successful, would grant an affiliate of the United Auto Workers (UAW) the power to represent Med Area clerical and technical workers in negotiations with the University...
Although the atmosphere at Vanderbilt eventually loosens up a bit, the med school dorm is a far cry from college, Montgomery, a Washington University graduate, says. "We used to do a lot more screwing around in college, we'd do things like bounce an empty key down the hallway--nothing like that goes on around here...
...should be some music! Over in the common room some guy is playing the piano and upstairs some other guy is doing a Gregorian chant, but c'mon! Where are the tunes? Where is the Springsteen? Who are these people? But of course...they're first and second-year med students...
Life for a med student is especially trying during the first two years. While much of the work amounts to reviewing the basic sciences, the pace is fast and relentless. And just about all the work is done in the classroom. Only in the third and fourth years are students permitted to test their stethescopes at the teaching hospitals and sample real medicine. Vanderbilt houses first- and second-year students--all of whom have had their fill of classrooms in high school and college, and all of whom are just itching to throw on Marcus Welby white jackets and start...
...course, if they wanted to, but it's just not in the game plan of most third- and fourth-year students, almost doctors, to stick around with a bunch of classroom jockeys. It would be like spending your senior year of college in Hurlbut. By their third year, most med students have moved into apartments in Boston or Cambridge...