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."
art
Resilience & community through fibre arts: a tatreez workshop
Tatreez requires patience and an attention to detail: the small fibers used to cross stitch are easily tangled in the back, and pulling them to the correct tension can be tedious work.
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.”
