The Graduate Employee Organization steps up action to gain a fair contract. Some 150 of us gathered at various constructions entries this past Thursday morning, and many construction workers did decline to cross our picket line. A few folks I know were there: 
Our spirit was stellar:
Concurrently, a protest against the war in Iraq has occupied the campus green for the past week.
Yep, these are the boots of individual, real soldiers. The one pair I walked up to for a close-up happened to belong to a young man from Vermont.
