“… Members of Graduate Workers of Columbia University-United Auto Workers, an unrecognized union group on campus, say they want to formalize the group and be recognized by the school as employees. But the seven remaining Ivy institutions, plus the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, sided against the group Monday, collectively filing an amicus (Latin for “friend of the court”) brief, according to a release posted to Yale University’s website that same day.” …
@dfbdfb I simply mean that in general columbia has been developing quite the reputation for being a super liberal, left-wing ivy, an attribute that has predominantly characterized Brown until now. Another exhibit of that is the situation above: Coddled, self-entitled students who think they deserve more and more. These students need to wake up imo
I lived on a graduate fellowship stipend at an Ivy (neither Columbia nor Brown) for four years. It certainly isn’t a “coddled” existence—it provided enough to eat and to rent a studio apartment in a rough part of town. (Health insurance required help from my parents, plus ignoring things I probably should have seen a doctor for.)
And it’s “self-entitled” to want some sort of job protection or better pay or such? I mean, have you never asked for a raise or anything like that? Seems a good way to never move ahead in your situation, really.