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NYU Throws Down the Gauntlet

11/29 | Administration to withdraw graduate student funding if GSOC stike continues past December 5th.

By Nerds on Strike

In an email to New York University's Graduate Student community, University President John Sexton writes:

"Because we take our responsibilities seriously, graduate assistants who do not resume their duties by December 5 or the first scheduled teaching assignment thereafter – while experiencing no consequences for this semester – will for the spring semester lose their stipend and their eligibility to teach.

"For those graduate assistants who return by December 5th and accept a teaching assignment for the spring, this acceptance comes with the commitment to meet their responsibilities without interruption throughout the spring semester."

The loss of the stipends, worth $19,000 a year, as well as teaching assignments, would take away the primary means by which most NYU Graduate Students pay for their education.

Keywords: News, Manhattan, Economy, Education,

While the Washington Square News is reporting decreased student morale as the strike drags on, undergraduates are planning a day of solidarity with strikers on Wednesday, November 30.

Coverage of latest developments: Nerds on Strike || Washington Square News || NYU Inc. || To the Barricades

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Looking for a striking grad student worker

Nov 29, 2005 04:13PM EST

IMCista

Indymedia NYC publishes a newspaper called The Indypendent. We are doing a story about the NYU strike for the next edition to be published in early Dec. Please email bbaumer13@yahoo.com if you are interested in writing a first person piece on the strike. We are looking for striking grad students only.

they're gonna lose.

Dec 01, 2005 02:08AM EST

nacho

as much as i want them to win, i just don't see how. the threats from sexton, going into winter break still on strike, no legal protections stemming from the fact they are not a recognized union, lack of tactics outside of picketing (which i dont necessarily blame gsoc for)... i jsut don't see how they're gonna win, and a lot of people are going to be fucked for a long time as a result...

is there anything us people out there can do to help??

Actually there is

Dec 01, 2005 08:41AM EST

MMT

But it is probably something you won't want to do. And it is something that once started will have to be carried out to the bitter end... and it entails a sacrifice.

Dec 01, 2005 11:04PM EST

nacho

how bout instead of the snippy remark you actually suggest something we can do?