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Published on April 8, 2003
Author: STEPHEN WATSON - News Staff Reporter
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Students from UB and Buffalo State College joined labor and community activists at a session at the Buffalo State campus Friday as part of National Student Labor Week of Action.
The observance coordinated activities by students at different campuses who are concerned about workers' rights and economic justice. At UB, members of UB Students Against Sweatshops are trying to persuade the administration to join a national anti-sweatshop consortium. Some speakers at the reception also talked about injustice in higher-education policies, criticizing Gov. George E. Pataki's budget proposal for the state university system, said Mary Carney, an organizer with the New York Public Interest Research Group chapter at Buffalo State. Students at three area high schools are going to work with UB researchers to build small computer clusters, thanks to a $50,000 grant from Verizon. The new project is called "Next Generation Scientists: Training for Students and Teachers." It links students from City Honors High School in Buffalo, Mount St. Mary Academy in the Town of Tonawanda and Orchard Park High School with UB's Center for Computational Research. The students went on campus last week to see UB's supercomputing center and meet with university researchers. The mini-clusters the students will build are modeled on the large Dell computer clusters at UB. UB is holding a panel discussion on "International Perspectives on the Current Crisis" at 3 p.m. Thursday in the North Campus Student Union. Speakers will include Professors Jonathan Dewald on France, Andreas Daum on Germany, Patrick McDevitt on Britain, Jorge Canizares Esquerra on Latin America and Thomas Burkman on Japan. Professor Roger DesForges will moderate. e-mail: swatson@buffnews.com<
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