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Earlier this month, to coincide with World AIDS Day, the Library of Congress (LOC) released a new digitized collection of records related to the National AIDS Memorial Quilt. The collection contains more than 125,000 letters, diaries, photographs, and other materials documenting the lives of those represented in the Quilt.
The abrupt decision by BU was announced a week after the end of a nearly seven-month graduate worker strike in October, which concluded when the school’s Graduate Workers Union (BUGWU) reached a contract agreement that included raises of more than 70 percent for the lowest-paid Ph.D. student workers in the form of a $45,000 minimum annual stipend and 3 percent annual raises during the three-year term. In a statement posted on Instagram shortly after the announcement, BUGWU claimed the university’s actions were a direct response to the contract agreement.
