Graduate Student Union
UR graduate students hold protest for unionization
Graduate student organizers are ready to do “whatever it takes” to form a union. “We feel like there's an extreme need here to get it done as quickly as possible,” said organizer Katie Gregory, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. “Up to and including a strike, everything's on the table.”
economics
Banning sweatshops won’t fix poverty, says visiting professor
“Welfare of the workers is the goal,” Powell said. “... We [must] have a means-end discussion about what policies deliver on that."
2022
Priya Ragu’s 2021 “damnshestamil” pays homage to her Tamil heritage
Released in 2021, her debut album “damnshestamil” is a warm combination of contemporary music and an ode to her heritage, incorporating audio clips of women speaking in Tamil overlayed with traditional South Indian beats.
