Students authorize a strike

James M. O'Neill writes on how Penn grad students authorize a strike

Graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania, seeking recognition tounionize, last night voted to hold a strike on the Ivy League campus onThursday and Friday. Union organizers said last night that 83 percent ofmore than 200 students attending voted to go ahead with a strike. "It's ameasure of the frustration we have with the university's legal obstruction,"said graduate student spokesman Dillon Brown. "It also shows that graduatestudents are eager to demonstrate how much they want their votes to becounted."