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...Madonna’s “Fever,” Bon Jovi’s “Bad Medicine,” and Pink’s “You Make Me Sick,” Harvard placed behind traditional powerhouses Towson University and UNC-Charlotte. UMass-Amherst, which entered the final round seeded third with Harvard, managed to squeak by with its final routine to garner a third place finish overall...
...Crimson will be looking to continue its winning ways in a nonleague doubleheader against eastern power UMass on Thursday. Then next weekend, in what is already shaping up to be a huge weekend in the Ivy League, Princeton comes to town. The Tigers are 6-0 in Ivy play, including a sweep yesterday of Cornell, the other defending Ivy co-champion...
...Umass RAs each receive a $5,100 compensation package, most of which goes to a room-cost deduction; students say they are left with $50 in cash each week. RAs' perks--large solo rooms, free Internet access--will probably be at risk when the new union makes its expected demand for a pay raise. Union organizers argue that these threats existed before the vote. "Last semester an RA got fired because he missed a single staff meeting," says junior Cristal Cruz, 20, an RA and a union supporter. "It showed me we had no say and no security...
This is just Round 1 in a long fight. University officials are considering an appeal to the state even as they threaten job cutbacks and increased dorm fees for all students. Says Kay Scanlan, spokeswoman for Umass: "We could change the program. We could refuse to bargain. We can go to court...
...fresh for the emerging generation of workers. Their grandparents belonged to unions; their parents didn't; now some of the kids do. "Even if they never join a union again, they'll be voters sensitized to working-class issues," James Shaw, president of Local 2322, says of the Umass students. "This is a symbol that labor is back...