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...tactics alone cannot explain why hordes of undergraduates crossed Union picket lines. Events beyond the Union's power also helped sap the organization's effort. Even if the organization had waged an exemplary educational campaign geared to a limited work stoppage, last Spring's success could not have been matched...
...Harvard students are being asked to usher in the balmy days of spring by observing some sort of University strike. The Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union is requesting members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community to neither teach nor attend class beginning today until their strike is settled. Union picket lines will circle major classroom buildings, exhorting students and an occasional Faculty member to remain outside. The issues are complex and somewhat obscure for most undergraduates. The following summary of the dispute is intended to clarify the major points of contention...
Undergraduates are the crucial unknown variable. If they refuse to cross picket lines in significant numbers, the Administration will have to start talking. Undergraduates for the most part observed two short work stoppages called by the Union last Spring, but the actions were preceded by more extensive barrages of leaflets than the organization has laid down this time around. Moreover, last year's actions were of short duration: Whether undergraduates will strike for a longer period of time is an open question...
...Union, which now claims 600 members, will picket all major classrooms and administrative buildings until the Administration revises the graduate school's financial aid plan according to Union demands, or until Union members decide collectively to pitch in the picket signs and go home...
Nevertheless, about 600 graduate students will stumble into picket lines Monday morning--calling on the Administration for funds which Bok has called "nonexistent"--and remain on the march until at least Thursday night, when the footsore Union members will hold an open forum to consider future actions...