Hold the university responsible
Hold the University of Chicago and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity Responsible for Racist, Homophobic “Prank” Graduate Students United (GSU) On May 31st 2013, U.S. Postal carrier Iran Becton delivered the...
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The Last Lactation Station
What’s been frustrating graduate students lately? If you read the Maroon, you’ll know the absence of private spaces to breastfeed is on the list. As the article explains, “The complaints stem from the...
View ArticleGSU Delighted to Welcome Affordable Child Care to U of C Campus
First, the good news: Thursday afternoon brought amazing news: an email in every doctoral student’s inbox from Deputy Provost Deborah Nelson bearing the subject line, “Need-based child care grants for...
View ArticleSolidarity with United Faculty
United Faculty, the labor union for faculty at University of Illinois – Chicago (UIC), won recognition in 2012 and has been negotiating their first contract for the past eighteen months. Now, on...
View ArticleTrauma Care Statement
On Monday 19th May, a group of protestors associated with the Trauma Care Coalition [1], including two members of Graduate Students United, chained themselves to the construction site of the new...
View ArticleThe Institution is the Problem: Graduate Students Respond to Racism on Campus
The recent post on a student’s Facebook page the week of November 17 frightened and disgusted graduate students across campus. We were horrified by the acts of overt racism and worried about the risk...
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Fees, fees, fees! Town Hall and Rally this January 26th & 30th
Announcing a Town Hall on FEES next Monday, January 26th at 5 p.m. at the University Church, 5655 S. University Avenue RALLY next Friday, January 30th at 2 p.m. at the Quad It’s that time of year again...
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Ferguson and Its Afterlives: February 10th
Please join us for “Ferguson and Its Afterlives,” a GSU-sponsored roundtable on solidarity, alliance and organization in the wake of #BlackLivesMatter, to be held next Tuesday, February 10th, from 4 to...
View ArticleUnfeesible! Petition to abolish the Student Life Fee
Please sign our petition to end the Student Life Fee for graduate students! During the 2014-15 school year, the University of Chicago will collect a mandatory $1041 Student Life Fee from each of its...
View ArticleUChicago Admin and Trustees Off Mission, Unaccountable
A guest post from David Mihalyfy, a GSU member and Ph.D. candidate in the Divinity School: Because of references I’ve made in my past two Jacobin articles and will make in an upcoming editorial, as...
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