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...workers in the Medical area marks another example of Harvard's disappointingly familiar insensitivity to the best interests of the University community. In a two-and-a-half year legal battle against the efforts of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America to hold an election among Med Area workers. Harvard and its lawyers have consistently sought to prevent over 1000 University clerical and technical employees from gaining the right to bargain effectively with their monolithic employer. And now, even after the National Labor Relations Board has upheld the union's right to go ahead in its organizing drive...
Harvard's personnel relations department has been waging an all-out campaign to defeat the union in the upcoming election on June 29, and quite likely will not admit defeat even if, as seems likely, District 65 earns the right to represent the Med Area workers. University officials admit that they have not ruled out the possibility of challenging any possible union victory in federal court--thus ensuring perhaps another year or so of costly, senseless legal bickering that will benefit neither Harvard, its employees, nor the students...
...Sure, he had spent an entire summer doing medical research at some institute where they paid you per dozen rats you managed to infect with assorted communicable horrors, and said he actually enjoyed the stay at "cancer camp." (That story had something to do with it, of course. Pre-med fever ran as high in Prescott as in any other freshman dorm, and even the most casually ambitious protosurgeon could develop a hatred for someone who seemed more at home in a laboratory than the Bunsen burners.) More than that, though, it was Carlo's attitude: he couldn't stand...
...going through a premed stage at the time and she would often study with Greg. She owed her high grades that semester not to any scientific aptitude but to her desire not to appear stupid to him. By the end of the semester, she was no longer interested in med school but she was interested in Greg...
Most people around here found it was muggy enough Sunday to limit their desire for exercise to hunting down an air-conditioned library, a rather fruitless exercise for those who are not pre-med...