As for our own research, I have both good news and bad news. The bad news first - as you might have gotten from the linked page above, as many expected, the conciliator did not resolve the issue between the part-timers and the administration and the negotiations continue as well as preparation for a strike on the part of the part-timers.
The good (and really the best) news is that our actions have not went unheard - the part-time faculty is re-energized by the burst of support from students. In less than a week, we have gathered over 1300 signatures of the petition and hundreds of leaflets with the e-mails of administrators have been given out. Such enormous support on behalf of the student body has not gone unnoticed by the administration who allowed the negotiations to progress a little before grinding them back to a halt again.
What this shows is that if we want these negotiations to progress and end in peace and if we want to save our semester from a part-time faculty strike, the burden of progress falls to us - more signatures, more e-mails, more concerns, more talk. The Cord will be publishing another article on the issue tomorrow while we are hitting the concourse and the public places. Feel free to come by and grab a petition in order to circulate it to your peers, friends, and classmates. In the next few days we'll try to make the physical version of the petition available online for download. In the meantime ask for a copy of the petition from me (tolyv@hotmail.com) or Terre (terrester@gmail.com) and we'll gladly e-mail one to you. Take a personal initiative - there's no reason why this movement needs to be centralized. All the while, send this link of the online petition to out of town friends and family members who also need to have a say on the issue - http://www.thepetitionsite
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