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After the National Labor Relations Board ruled Monday that New York University (NYU) graduate student teaching assistants have the right to unionize, many Harvard teaching fellows (TFs) said they were satisfied with their situation and doubted that there would be any need for them to unionize...
...first place, academics at Harvard already operate a full seven minutes behind the rest of the Eastern Seaboard. As any undergraduate knows, a lecture, seminar or section which is billed to begin at three o'clock really kicks off at three-oh-seven. TFs and professors ignorant of the seven-minute phenomenon (more people who insist on living within their own time zones) succeed only in speaking to empty seats and causing embarrassment to those students who are actually in sync with the rhythms of their school. And because most Harvard students seem to be naturally late, the rule extends...
...always looking out for our best interests beyond just being TFs for our course," he says...
...many grades that are given rely on one exam, where there are no TFs. It's absurd to ask one professor to grade 140 exams," he says...
...ideal world where the wheels of bureacracy were well-oiled, we might be able to renovate the Core to the point where it would be all it can be, but until then, all I ask for is a simple improvement: Let TFs teach classes they truly know how to teach. If there aren't enough graduate students to go around, cap the enrollment, listen to the whines of lotteried students and tell them that they're better off taking something else this term. Better yet, the Faculty should take another good long look at the Core and try to move...