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...even as thousands of well-wishers from around the world register their support for the strikers through an online petition, NYU is threatening to stop paying the strikers’ stipends for two semesters and to prevent them from working as teaching assistants in the future...
...struggles of striking graduate students at NYU might deter their counterparts at other private universities, including Harvard, from demanding collective-bargaining rights...
...NYU insists that graduate students are not employees, and that they therefore do not have a right to unionize...
...October by Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society and a well known blogger and activist who focuses on issues of technological development in some of the poorer countries in Africa. In late October a small group of NYU students led a protest in New York outside of a Virgin Megastore to inform consumers of what they thought to be unreasonable copy protection measures put in place by major record labels. Dozens of blogs, Boing Boing among them, picked up on the story, and it spread across interested circles...
...fallen in her favor. She admits that the dorms-and-dining-halls lifestyle may not suit her, even as she’s played a college student herself in 2004’s “In Good Company” (in which her character was accepted into, yep, NYU). “I have friends who are studying sociology and finance and constantly doing research and writing papers and going to classes,” she says. “I can’t imagine that life for me.” She does, however, empathize with...