Sunday, February 22, 2004
Things are heating up at Penn.
About 75 graduate students abruptly stood up during the meeting. Over the objections of trustee chair James Riepe, one belted out a harangue that dressed down the trustees for blocking the students' attempts to unionize.
After the students sat down, the trustees resumed, and unanimously elected Princeton University provost Amy Gutmann as Penn's next president. She will succeed Judith Rodin on July 1.
Once the meeting let out, a small welcoming band of students led Gutmann and the trustees across the Penn campus in University City. Students stood along the route and waved, blue and red Penn balloons danced in the teasingly warm air, and the graduate-student protesters tagged along in blue shirts that read, "Penn Works Because We Do." They competed with the band's sunny rendition of school songs by chanting "Count the votes!"
Provost Robert Barchi claims that students are being "manipulated and coopted" by unions. Guess it says a lot about his faith in the people who he admits to his grad school and who teach his undergraduates that he doesn't think they know when they're being screwed over and when they're fighting for justice...
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About 75 graduate students abruptly stood up during the meeting. Over the objections of trustee chair James Riepe, one belted out a harangue that dressed down the trustees for blocking the students' attempts to unionize.
After the students sat down, the trustees resumed, and unanimously elected Princeton University provost Amy Gutmann as Penn's next president. She will succeed Judith Rodin on July 1.
Once the meeting let out, a small welcoming band of students led Gutmann and the trustees across the Penn campus in University City. Students stood along the route and waved, blue and red Penn balloons danced in the teasingly warm air, and the graduate-student protesters tagged along in blue shirts that read, "Penn Works Because We Do." They competed with the band's sunny rendition of school songs by chanting "Count the votes!"
Provost Robert Barchi claims that students are being "manipulated and coopted" by unions. Guess it says a lot about his faith in the people who he admits to his grad school and who teach his undergraduates that he doesn't think they know when they're being screwed over and when they're fighting for justice...
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