Monday, September 13, 2004
Second-Class Research?
It's bad enough that an "I hate Republicans" column passes as Linguistic Analysis.
Now, in a totally unbiased study called "Berkeley’s Betrayal: Wages and Working Conditions at Cal," five fake university students (i.e. sociology students) discovered some tragic news about the plight of the university staff.
This pledge to maintain educational integrity but not make promises to staff members has made workers feel like they are left hanging.
Welcome to the university, and educational institution, not a public works project.
[W]orkers feel like second-hand citizens in the university.
Two points of order:
1) The university is not a national entity. Hence, there are no "university citizens" to be first or second class.
2) The university is an employer. Workers are second-hand employees of the university, because they are replaceable, while professors and the like, usually, are not. This is a very basic reality of employment.
"As a Berkeley student, I feel outraged. This is my own back yard," [Ofer] Sharone said. "These problems are not acceptable."
You think you're being marginalized by the university? Get to cleaning the back yard of the champions out to defend you, workers! The problems are very much acceptable. I have accepted them.
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