Yesterday, undergrads joined graduate students in marching to David Swenson's and Richard Levin's offices to demand investment disclosure to shed some light on the truth about the impact of Yale's money. Today, undergrads set up three installations on Beinecke - eight hundred paper plates whose distribution represents the racial and gender make-up of Yale's tenured faculty, a mini-classroom to discuss academic casualization, and a weighted game of juggling based on financial aid status - and talked with peers about the impact of these issues on our education and our community. Then we marched to join GESO at HGS and stand together in calling for a more progressive vision of the academy. Oh - and the "Dissertation Derby" was pretty fun too, as well as a vivid demonstration of the disjuncture between administration policy and the best interests of graduate students and the academy.
3/04/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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