Grad students push to unionize
Graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania are taking
their fight to unionize to the courthouse.
New York University and Brown University are campuses that only
recently acquired the ability to hold union elections, which helped
set a hopeful precedent for the Pennsylvanian students not far
away.
Penn administrators discourage the actions, saying they see
graduate students as research and teaching assistants, not
employees.
The hearing will begin Friday, and the decision could take
months.
Student murder suspect found
The November murder of a University of Arizona student and his
wife may finally come to a close now that a suspect has been
found.
Wenshi Zhou, a Chinese citizen, was discovered last month in
China, where he will be tried.
“The Chinese law has jurisdiction on Chinese citizens
everywhere in the world,” said Xuewen E, counselor of
education for the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles. “He will
be tried in China.”
The punishment for murder in China is death.
The two victims, doctoral student Jianquing Yang and his wife Yu
Yun Chen, were stabbed in their apartment.
Zhou was a co-worker of Chen’s at a restaurant before Chen
quit earlier last year.
After the murder, it was said that Zhou left his job.
Tucson Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Judy Altieri said they
have probable cause to believe Zhou committed the aforementioned
crime, though they still have yet to determine a motive.
“We haven’t had a chance to interview the
suspect,” she said. “We may never have an answer to the
question of why.”
Stanford accepts record number
Just days after Yale University President Richard C. Levin
called for top colleges across the country to eliminate early
admissions programs, a top California university reported receiving
a record number of early applications.
Stanford University accepted 558 of its 2,393 early applicants
to the class of 2006. The number of applicants accepted was up 7
percent from last year.
“With Early Decision, we want to admit no more than
roughly one-third of the class, and what’s really important
is no more than one-fourth of our total admits (are admitted
early),” said Robin Mamlet, dean of undergraduate admissions
and financial aid at Stanford.
“I think Stanford is where we ought to be on
this.”
Levin called for the abandonment of early decision programs,
because he said they are unfair to applicants, according to the New
York Times.
Levin said Yale would not ditch its early admissions program
without other top colleges also doing so because, “Yale would
be seriously disadvantaged relative to other schools.”
Utah students may lose their housing
Many University of Utah students may have to scramble to find
new housing when the 2002 Winter Olympics come to town, as
landlords in neighborhoods nearby rent out their rooms to
tourists.
In addition, Utah students may feel the daily impact of the
Olympics with limited parking, the mass residence halls relocation
and the prospect of a monthlong spring break.
Some students at Utah last year signed leases with stipulations
that they would be temporarily evicted while the Olympics were
happening.
April White, a third-year marketing student at Utah, said she
signed a one-year lease for a studio apartment in August with the
stipulation she moves out for a three-week stint in February. In
exchange, she will receive free rent for the remainder of February
and all of March and April.
“I really needed a place right away, so I signed the
lease,” she said.
“I was in a pretty desperate situation,” White
added. “All of the other places I looked at were pretty
gross, and I liked it here.”
Compiled from Daily Bruin wire services.