The Brian Lehrer Show

Academic Sweatshop

Thursday, April 29, 2004

Something is in the air in New York City, graduate teaching assistants have gone on strike at Columbia University and adjunct professors at NYU have just narrowly avoided one. In recent years universities have extended the classroom time of teaching assistants, but some feel they have not been compensated for their efforts.

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A Link in the Cheney

Dahlia Lithwick Senior editor for Slate.com, Supreme Court correspondent, and co-author, Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman,2003) explains the Supreme Court hearings of Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla and the Dick Cheney/Energy Task force case
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Sohail Mohammed Immigration Attorney in New Jersey says the White House is overstepping in detaining Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla

Stand-Up Pundit

Mort Sahl stand-up comedian on his long history of political stand-up comedy

Note: We do not have permission to re-air Mort Sahl’s interview, which took place at 10:41:00-10:58:59

Nickel-and-Dimed in Academia

Shannan Clark 5th year History PhD candidate at Columbia University on the need for graduate students to organize and the current strike at Columbia
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Scott Smallwood Senior Reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education covering academic labor issues on academic laborers
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Kathleen Hull Adjunct Professor at NYU; active in ACT/UAW union; co-president of NYU’s American Assoc. Of University Professors (AAUP)on the university's reliance on adjunct professors
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Alexandra Lord acting historian for the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington D.C.; co-founder of Beyond Academe website on helping PhDs find work outside academia