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...Instead, UMass-Amherst continues to deny the RAs’ right to organize. In response, on April 19, 15 students and workers held a sit-in in the office of the vice chancellor for student affairs, demanding recognition of their union. All were arrested, including those who locked arms to block a police...
...unionization be conducted among the RAs. The commission pointed to several facts: RAs sign an employment contract, work about 20 hours a week and receive weekly paychecks. Also, their compensation is calculated to meet the minimum wage, and taxes are deducted. To distinguish RAs from the graduate students at UMass-Lowell who had not been deemed employees, the commission pointed to the fact that RAs undergo rigid training and supervision, including exit interviews if they are terminated. It concluded that the university’s interest in RAs is primarily in the services RAs provide—services that...
Harvard’s scheduled game with UMass in Amherst at 3pm yesterday was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up next Thursday...
Colin Godfrey, a professor at UMass-Boston, first became part of the Minute Men not for a love of history but because of his acting experience. “I was involved with theater at my church, and someone thought I’d be good in the Paul Revere reenactment,” Godfrey says. “It’s different from acting, because you get out there and feel something more of what those men must have felt then.” So he now riles up the rebellious crowd portraying Sam Adams the night before...
Brown next hosts the Bulldogs for one doubleheader and play the other in New Haven. Harvard will travel to UMass Thursday in its final non-league game...