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Those six victories included a 9-8, season-opening win against No. 20 UMass and a 7-6, overtime upset of No. 7 BU. During the year, the Crimson also gave No. 3 Princeton, No. 10 Dartmouth and No. 12 Cornell cause for concern while keeping the final score close...
That test starts this Saturday at UMass, with the Ivy opener scheduled at home against Brown on March...
...result of the UMass RAs’ vote will have little effect on Harvard, where proctors and tutors, instead of undergraduate RAs, serve as resident counselors. And of course teaching fellows, whose jobs actually involve teaching and research, should be allowed to form unions. But UMass RAs should recognize that their jobs, unlike the jobs of the autoworkers under whose auspices they propose to form a union, are more about responsibility than reward—and that their concerns should be more paternal than pecuniary...
...workers, including RAs, have a right to collective bargaining to effect changes when they see fit. The Massachusetts Labor Relations Committee affirmed that right just a month ago. It’s time for UMass to recognize its responsibilities as an employer and stop unfairly threatening its employees...
...UMass pays students for doing this job; this compensation amounts to wages for services rendered. The question is whether the university would ever allow unsupervised residential life. Without undergraduate RAs, the university would be forced to hire graduate students or adults for undoubtedly higher wages. If UMass wishes to continue to save money, it must also be willing to sit down at the negotiating table and address the grievances of its student employees...