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...King did not appear to appreciate the news fully at first. It was an entire year after the discovery when he and his retinue arrived in a caravan of 400 automobiles at the pumping station of Ras Tanura to witness the first tanker hauling away its cargo of Saudi crude. Henceforth the King would no longer rely for income on the pilgrims arriving in Mecca, Islam's holiest city. And his kingdom's petroleum wealth would emerge as a crucial factor in Middle East politics and the bargaining over global energy supplies. --By Adam Zagorin
...Yale system would provide a network for first-years to meet upperclassmen—granting them academic and social advisers in the way that many other schools have RAs. As it stands, social interaction between first-years and upperclassmen is limited to extracurricular activities and sports teams. But a junior with whose House you are affiliated can tell you which classes to avoid and can invite you to their party this coming Saturday...
Because of the power disparity between the students and the university, UMass can return the RA employees to student status. Such a move to skirt the possibility of a union would be incredibly manipulative and highlights the very imbalance of power between the administration and the RAs that make unionizing necessary...
...university should respect the prerogative of its student-workers to band together. Instead, it has threatened to drag the issue through the courts for four to five years, according to the students. If RAs had been able to communicate their concerns to a responsive administration through their union, they would not have had to sit in. Denied such a forum, disruptive but non-violent civil disobedience was among the only methods of negotiation RAs had available. Now, the university is continuing to press charges and is threatening expulsion and other disciplinary action against the students involved. The 34 arrests marked...
Despite this concern with law and order, the administration continues to refuse to recognize the union—the now-legally-required mediator for negotiating with RAs. The university would be wise to stop punishing protesters and instead model the behavior it asks of them: calmly sitting down at the bargaining table...