Finish grading in exchange for amnesty: UCSC graduate student workers make the campus an offer

Lookout Santa Cruz ^ | June 24, 2024 | Hillary Ojeda

[artichokegrower]

Graduate student workers say they want amnesty for the more than 100 people arrested at UC Santa Cruz's pro-Palestine encampment May 30-31. They say they will then finish grading of their undergraduate students. UCSC says it won’t negotiate. What’s likely: “pass” grades for those ungraded.

[artichokegrower]

Now, the union, as it announced on Instagram, has made an offer to UCSC administrators to have union members finish the grading in exchange for UC administrators granting the arrested protesters amnesty. Such an amnesty would apply to more than 100 people that police arrested at the UCSC encampment on May 30 and 31.

You grad students are employees of the university. You joined a union UAW signed a contract. You can’t strike. You are committing extortion against the undergrads you are representing.. Return to work today or be dismissed for violating your contract. Cease with the extortion or face legal action

[Brian Griffin]

Imagine if the professors had to grade the papers.

Oh, the agony, the misery, and the 15 minutes of time per paper.

[Brian Griffin]

It’s a university.

The time for education never ends or should stop.

“You’re fired.”

[sasquatch]

Uncle Charlie’s Summer Camp

[frank ballenger]

How about jumbo passenger jet pilots, heart and brain surgeons and others guaranteed “pass” if they accept the protest rules by a university?

[Thud]

Fire them all, and refuse their academic credits for this term.

[Don W]

The grad students are fired, and the protesters being graded are failed for the semester.

Stupid SHOULD hurt BIG!

[Bookshelf]

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Shut the place down!

[glennaro]

Well, perhaps these “educated” students will learn something this semester: That calling for the destruction of the Jewish state and supporting the extermination of the Jewish people results in condemnation by civilized people.