I don't understand the question at all. Here at SUNY TAs have now been unionized for more than five years and foreign students get TA positions just as frequently as they always have. I'm Director of Graduate Studies for Economics and there have not been any memos coming going changing anything about admissions since the TAs were unionized. Paul Z. In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/02/98 at 10:00 PM, Progressive Economics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >My point was even more serious. The foreign students (unless they are from >very rich families) will not even get a chance to come to US and try the >McJobs. Since foreign students come on F1 visa called student visa. Usually >people like us get such visa by showing the promise of teaching >assistantships, which assures the US govt. that we will not join the >begging line. In the absence of TAships, visa will definitely be denied. On >the other hand universities may not be able to offer TAships to foreign >citizens because it may entail getting a green card, and for that purpose >they will have to convience the immigration dept. that they could not find >anyone equally qualified for the job at home, which would be a very hard >thing to do at that level of qualification. So I think its legal >ramification should be seriously thought through by the movement. It is >important for US intellectual culture to keep the shutters open for foreign >students. Cheers, ajit sinha ******************************************************************* Paul Zarembka, supporting RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka *******************************************************************
