Alex Bores '13 talks about the University's labor standards and steps Cornell should take to ensure them.

Tom Moore '14 argues that for anyone interested in social justice, limiting the power of interest groups risks throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The National Labor Relations Board agreed in a two-to-one decision last week to reconsider allowing graduate students to unionize, which may have overarching implications for the legal status of graduate teaching assistants at Cornell.

Andy Stern, the president of the 2.2 million member Service Employees International Union and one of the most prominent labor leaders in the country, visited the School of Industrial and Labor Relations yesterday and Tuesday for a series of lectures and discussions. He sat down with The Sun yesterday afternoon.

Overgrown quads crawling with ticks. Cracked sidewalks unplowed in mid-winter: impassable. Showers caked with inch-thick mold. Classrooms dusty, dirty and unkempt. Dorm bathrooms still reeking of last weekend’s now-hardened vomit. Dining hall buffets empty. Scared, starved students calling out to mommy in bewilderment. A university unhinged, rendered inert.

This description of life without Cornell workers is overly dramatic, of course. A lame attempt at shock and awe. But what would become of our school without the services provided by these workers? How much are their services worth?