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1. Midterms are next week.
U. professors work on NASA spaceship to send Matthew McConaughey to an interstellar, fourth-dimensional bookshelf
The University filed an amicus brief to the National Labor Relations Board on Monday against graduate student unionization along with eight other private universities.The brief was filed in a Columbia University case before the NLRB regarding unionization of graduate students at the school.The brief argues that relationship between graduate students and private universities should be defined as strictly academic, and urges the NLRB not to reverse the 2004 Brown University ruling that graduate teaching assistants should primarily be considered as students, not employees."Amici believe that reversal or modification of Brown would significantly damage private sector graduate education in this country and will represent an inappropriate intrusion into long protected areas of academic freedom and autonomy," the brief reads.The brief explains that the institutions who signed the brief do not measure teaching and research in commercial or economic terms, adding that the institutions consider teaching experience as a crucial component of preparing doctoral candidates for careers.The brief further adds that the market value of teaching services provided by doctoral candidates is not taken into consideration when determining stipends provided to graduate student who teach. "Because the graduate student/university relationship at institutions like amici is not driven by economics, the rough and tumble of collective bargaining cannot be imposed on that relationship without doing irreparable damage," the brief reads.Collective bargaining will result in "disputes, litigation, and perhaps strikes such as those which have frequently occurred at public universities," compromising academic freedom at the institutions, the brief notes."Not a single graduate student in any of the amici institutions has ever been required to join a union as a condition of receiving his or her education, nor have the academic or financial arrangements of any of the amici graduate programs ever been subject to collective bargaining," the brief reads.In 1989, graduate students of the University formed the Graduate Student Union, the predecessor of the current Graduate Student Government, to call for better conditions and support for the graduate student population."How can we feel welcome at this University if we are not provided for out of our stipend with even the basic necessities of living?" said then-GSU chair Alan Middleton GS ’90 in a Nov. 30, 1989 rally in front of the Nassau Hall to protest the budget cuts to services provided to graduate students.University General Counsel Ramona Romero signed the brief on behalf of the University.The nine schools who jointly filed the brief are Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and the University.More to come…
Forbes College is experiencing flooding following a major storm Wednesday night in to Thursday morning, according to an email distributed to the Forbes listserv.
Reclaim Harvard Law, a group of student activists at Harvard Law School, occupied part of the school's Caspersen Student Center on Monday and plan to remain there indefinitely until their demands are met, according to the Harvard Crimson.
Event: This is Princeton: 2016
Dear Sexpert,
1. Eat all the chocolate your mom sent you.
Potential NJ Transit strike to interfere with Spring Break travel, not the first time NJ Transit has let us down
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, a native of Trenton, N.J., died Saturday at a resort in West Texas.
Four graduate students were named as the recipients of 2016 Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship on Wednesday.
University seniors James Agolia '16 and Andrew Nelson '16 were named winners of the 2016 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize on Wednesday, according to a University press release.
1. Snowed in.
Third Wintersession offers many classes to students, "Jonas: The IMAX 4D Winter Experience" among them
The University’s Office of Career Services has revolutionized its program with an emphasis on unconventionality, including hiring psychics to consult with students about where they should end up.
The sprint football team recently ended a losing streak of 100 years in a specially scheduled off-season showdown extravaganza.
The University is instituting a campaign to purge itself of all documents, statements and expressions that do not meet University standards of political correctness.
After achieving stratospheric success in the realm of basketball during the 2014-15 season, women’s basketball head coach Courtney Banghart has decided to part ways from the team she took to a 31-1 record last season. She has signed a contract to begin coaching The Daily Princetonian dodgeball team in preparation for the annual University Dodgeball Tournament this coming April.
After celebrating his 50th Reunion this past May, former men’s basketball star Bill Bradley ’65 decided he missed his beloved “Old Nassau” far too much to remain away for long. After much deliberation and discussion with his loved ones, Bradley has decided to return to Princeton for four more years, where he plans to star not just on the basketball court, but also on the football field.
Youcant Pokeme ’18, captain of the University club fencing team and Big Shot ’18, captain of the University rifle shooting team, were severely injured in a duel that occurred on Wednesday.