On February 7, Public Affairs sent a mass email asking undergraduates to report classes and sections that have been cancelled or modified as a result of the teaching strike. The form even asks for the names of TAs, suggesting that admin may want to use this information to punish TAs who may have decided to participate in the strike by withholding their labor.
If you are an undergraduate or graduate student, you can help prevent admin from using submissions to this form to punish TAs who are fighting to be paid enough to survive in Santa Cruz. Follow the instructions below, and spread the message to fellow grads, fellow undergrads, or undergrads that you teach using the email template below the instructions!
Instructions
- Go to the Google Form that Public Affairs sent out in their February 7 email.
- Using this random UCSC class finder, pick a UCSC class and enter the class name into the Google Form. Use the class’s meeting time as the answer to the question “What was the scheduled meeting time?”
- Make a random selection for the questions titled “Did this disruption concern…” and “What type of disruption occurred?”.
- For “What day did the disruption occur?” use one of the dates of the full teaching strike (2/10 or later).
- As the TA/Instructor name, use a name from this random first and last name generator. Don’t use names like Cynthia Larive that easily identify a submission as fake.
- Make between one and four separate form submissions. Ideally, these submissions should come from lots of different people.
- SPREAD THE WORD!
Hello, <NAME/GROUP>!
As you may have seen in the email from Public Affairs on February 7, admin is trying to encourage students to snitch on TAs who are participating in the strike. I feel that it is unjust that the administration wants to punish grad students when they are simply fighting for a living wage. Here’s an easy way that you can help make the information they receive unusable:
- Go to the Google Form that Public Affairs sent out in their email
- Put in a random UCSC class name using this random UCSC class generator. Where the form says “What was the scheduled meeting time?”, enter the time from the class generator.
- Make a random selection for the “Did this disruption concern…” question and for the “What type of disruption occurred?” question.
- As the TA/Instructor name, pick a name from this random first and last name generator.
- Make between one and four separate form submissions, one for each random class. Ideally, these submissions should come from LOTS of different people.
Please forward this message to any/all other undergrads you know!