i found the free printing

and i also found the anti-union faculty op-ed, which, compared to, say, the Peter Brookses and Annabel Pattersons of the world, is rather tame. I haven't had any teaching experience and have no sense of what the demographics of TA work and adjunct instruction look like here. My guess is that they are pretty massive. The amount of MA students here, most of whom are getting screwed royally (no sexual violence metaphor intended) is staggering. My cohort initially had more MA students than doctoral students, though one of the MA students has apparently dropped out already. I tend to think that no one should have to pay for graduate school, particularly when one plans to work twards a PhD and will teach undergraduate classes. This is very much work - taxing, difficult, involved. I do need to ask around and figure out whether the union has any sense of what the casualization statsitics look like. If it has not already been done, then I doubt anyone has time to do this research now, with the possibility of a strike looming, but it's something that will be good to know and will doubtlessly be a valuable organizing resource.

Grad school is a lot of work, much of it interesting, but i'm feeling nervous about my ability to do this work and a little overwhelmed. Also feeling like NYU ges out of it way to make things partcularly difficult for us -- like making us pick up our checks at "One Half Fifh Avenue", which is actually not on fifth avenue, but in a fucking alleyway like half a block from fifth avenue, and reminds me of the 91/2th floor from Being John Malkovitch. and s just generally impossible to find. Also they make you print out the direct deposit form yourself, unless you talk to enough people to figure out that you can get a copy at the stipend office on the second floor of the very OPS-like 726 broadway, which is a very intimidating cubicle labyrinth (and it's an AFT shop with ots of union stuff in the front office, which is cool. Didn't know they organized C&Ts, and i thought everyne on this campus was in 2110 (the UAW local to whch I now belong.)