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...good faith,” Valentine said.If no compromise is reached, the strike would be at least the third of its kind this year. Five-day strikes this April by non-unionized graduate students at Yale and Columbia were unsuccessful in securing union contracts. Rosenstein said there is widespread support from the university community for the union and for the original contract, which won a 38 percent stipend increase and health care benefits for graduate students.Valentine said that over 250 faculty members have already contacted GSOC for assistance in moving their classes off campus to avoid crossing the union?...
...requested it as their pronoun,” Zach Strassburger, a member of the Weseleyan Trans/Gender Group, wrote in an e-mail. “They are mostly but not entirely students who identify as trans or gender-variant in some way.” The term first gained widespread recognition this fall, when the Trans/Gender Group sent each professor information packets about using the gender-neutral pronoun. “Some Wesleyan professors are comfortable with the term; others are not,” Strassburger wrote. “In my experience, when we introduce ourselves for various groups...
...summer, MySpace, the largest online social networking site, sold for $580 million. Zuckerberg concluded his round of interviews by meeting with two sophomore programmers who discussed the addition of a music and band promotion feature to the site. One of those two students said facebook.com’s widespread appeal makes it an attractive company to work for. “You got the brand name going,” Jonathan A. Hyman ’08 told Zuckerberg. “It’s a verb, man!” After those meetings, Zuckerberg, dressed inconspicuously...
...hygienic live poultry markets, persuading traders to allow them to take blood and feces samples from their chickens and waterfowl. From those samples, Guan and his team have managed to sequence the genetic code for more than 250 strains of H5N1--giving them a chillingly accurate picture of how widespread bird flu is in the region and how the virus is mutating. "We have to know what's in animals, so we know what could be in human beings," says Guan...
...said Brittani S. Head ’06, communications director of the Harvard Democrats. “I think the current leadership of the country is doing a very poor job when it comes to foreign policy and domestic policy.” Pittinsky said such sentiments are widespread among Americans. “I think in general there is a fairly strong signal that people have a strong desire to see stronger leadership pretty much across sectors,” he said. “That goes across political parties, economic groups, and gender.” However...