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1. Herrick Chapman, Gloria M. Coruzzi, Robert McChesney, Yaw
Nyarko, Kathleen A. Ross, Diane N. Ruble and Nadrian C. Seeman, "A Report
with Recommendations to the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science,
New York University," June, 1998, pg. 1.
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2. Ibid, pg. 2.
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3. See the NYU spring '99
undergraduate course catalogue. In public testimony before the National
Labor Relations Board, Biology chairman, Philip Furmanski, acknowledged that
all lab sections scheduled there were taught by grad students.
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4. See page pp. 4-5 of "Order
Denying Motion to Dismiss Petition or Stay Proceedings," issued by Silverman
on May 28, 1999.
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5. See
"A Report with Recommendations.....," pg. 3.
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6. "Official Report of
Proceedings Before the NLRB, Case No. 2-RC-22082," pg. 791.
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7. This summary is found in
"1980 U.S. Lexis 25***; 63 L. Ed. 2nd 115," pg. 1.
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8. "Between Classes: The NYU
Afterword," an unpublished paper by Daniel Bender, Erin Elizabeth Clune,
Kitty Krupat and Andrew Schroeder. See Introduction, pp. 19-20.
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9. See "NYU Pays Half a Million
to Avoid Grad Union," in GSOC Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, August 1999,
pg. 3.
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10. "Questions
and Answers on Graduate Assistant Organizing," a document issued by NYU on
September 17, 1999. See pp.1-2. A file of all NYU releases in its anti-union
campaign may be found on the website maintained by NYU's Public Affairs
Department: http://www.nyu.edu/publicaffairs/gradissues/.
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11. "In a Tight
Academic Job Market, Union Activism Grows Among Graduate Students," in
Physics Today, May, 1999, pg. 4.
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12. "Questions and
Answers....", pg. 1.
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13. See, for example, the winter, 1996 edition of Social
Text, devoted to academic labor. A number of the essays in that edition
discussed the right of graduate students at Yale to unionize. Cary Nelson's
1997 anthology, Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis, was an
expanded version of this Social Text edition. Elitist notions of
academic labor are sharply attacked in two other books by Nelson:
Manifesto of a Tenured Radical and The Devil's Dictionary
(co-authored with Stephen Myers Watt). Numerous conferences and symposia
have added to the discussion, including two at NYU: "Between Classes," held
in the fall of 1996, and "Intellectual Activism," held in the spring of
1999.
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14. This is one
of a series of legal dos and don'ts, contained in a September 17, 1999
memorandum to faculty and administrators from Andrew Schaffer. It may be
found on the University Public Affairs website: http://www.nyu.edu/publicaffairs/gradissues/.
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15. See "Did You
Know...," in GSOC Journal, pg. 3.
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16. The increase in student
health care fees is broken down in the cover story of GSOC Journal,
Vol. 2, No. 1, August 1999.
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