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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Angel Eyes on April 28, 2017, 02:06:14 PM
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Yale doctoral students on a "hunger strike" . . . except they can eat when they get hungry:
http://freebeacon.com/culture/yale-grad-students-go-symbolic-hunger-strike-theyre-allowed-eat/
Kids these days . . . too lazy to even protest properly . . .
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$40K free education, $30K a year stipend, and free health care, all to go to school.
I have as much sympathy for them as I do all the "poor" student/athletes that have more ink on their bodies than I can afford.
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$40K free education, $30K a year stipend, and free health care, all to go to school.
I have as much sympathy for them as I do all the "poor" student/athletes that have more ink on their bodies than I can afford.
Agreed.
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Must be rough with my insurance costs that would be well over 100k a year.
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And these idiots are the foundation that our Republic is to rest upon in a few years. I suggest we nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way.
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And these idiots are the foundation that our Republic is to rest upon in a few years. I suggest we nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way.
Tell the Norks those Yale idiots said something mean about the Fat Kid and let things sort themselves out.
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$70,000+ per year of compensation and they are on strike for more? And they are unionized? WTF?
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They are unionized, but the university doesn't recognize the union and won't deal with it. Small wonder.
Yale doctoral students currently earn a stipend $30,000 a year, receive free health care, and have their $40,000 tuition paid in full, according to Yale News.
Doesn't sound like such a bad deal to me. That's quite a bit more than I receive from Social Security.
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I think they deserve better benefits. They should have a trained professional (no doubt a graduate with their doctorate already) who will burp them, give them their pacifier, tuck them in to bed and tell make sure there are no monsters under it since it's a safe space. Otherwise they will hold their collective breaths until
they turn blue they need to breath some more.
Seriously, why do students even need a union?
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Seriously, why do students even need a union?
Obviously, because the greedy university won't acquiesce to their reasonable requests for a living wage.
I had heard something about this before -- the dispute has been going on for probably ten years or longer, and the university seems to be holding firm. Now I understand why. I thought the doctoral teaching assistants were paying tuition and being paid a pittance, like $1500 per semester or something like that. Even in New Haven, where the cost of living is pretty high, I'm certain there are a lot of families that live on $30,000 (or less) per year.
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They want the unions so they can be all woke. I TAd when I was in grad school specifically because it paid my tuition plus I made something like $28/hr, which was really good wages back then (plus I got to use faculty parking and not walk a mile to classes). Many of the younger kids doing it still complained. I used to tell them they could be working in the oil patch instead. :)
College Republicans holding a barbecue. :laugh:
http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2017/04/29/uh-oh-college-republicans-near-hunger-strike-at-yale-have-sparked-a-triggering/
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College Republicans holding a barbecue. :laugh:
http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2017/04/29/uh-oh-college-republicans-near-hunger-strike-at-yale-have-sparked-a-triggering/
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/palestinians-condemn-barbecue-outside-israeli-jail-1492784262
Pro-settlement Israelis held a barbecue outside the Ofer prison where Palestinian prisoners are on a hunger strike
Someone linked this in there, but the article is restricted.
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Wow, there being paid to go to school and want a raise. I would like to be there when they get an actual job and they camp out in front of the bosses office demanding more money or they will stop eating (as much). Since the real world is not a safe space they may not know what the response will be never having been exposed to it. I suspect they will be shocked, triggered, then humiliated when they get laughed at.
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They will never leave university life.
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They want the unions so they can be all woke. I TAd when I was in grad school specifically because it paid my tuition plus I made something like $28/hr, which was really good wages back then (plus I got to use faculty parking and not walk a mile to classes). Many of the younger kids doing it still complained. I used to tell them they could be working in the oil patch instead. :)
College Republicans holding a barbecue. :laugh:
http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2017/04/29/uh-oh-college-republicans-near-hunger-strike-at-yale-have-sparked-a-triggering/
The babe in the left foreground hasn't missed many meals. She's a walking definition of the term "thunder thighs."
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Turn the "strikers" loose in a room full of people who work their asses off for the amount the studentsearn as a "stipend" and tell said workers that these entitled *expletive deleted*s are whining about the sweetheart deal and I think the problem will sort itself out
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The babe in the left foreground hasn't missed many meals. She's a walking definition of the term "thunder thighs."
Thinking she isn't one of the strikers either.
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
What he said.
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They are unionized,
How hard could it be to ionize them?
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Symbolic hunger strike...
So, whiney little pussies, then, who don't actually have much in the way of conviction for their cause.
Got it.
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Well, their "poverty" is symbolic (since in reality they earn more than probably half the population of New Have, Connecticut), so what's more appropriate to protest a symbolic oppression than a symbolic protest?
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Well, their "poverty" is symbolic (since in reality they earn more than probably half the population of New Have, Connecticut),
They may get more than many people, but I'd argue they don't earn a cent.