41.   Polytechnic gave him a lab, allowed him to collect his patent earnings and provided a steady stream of graduate assistants for his research and consulting.

42.   Sarkisian was a graduate assistant at USC last season before going to San Diego State last month.

43.   Sitting together were assistant coaches Pat Thomas and Tommy Kaiser and graduate assistants Gregg Williams and Ronnie Vinklarek.

44.   Some schools, such as St. Edwards University in Texas, do not use graduate teaching assistants.

45.   Such squabbling belongs on college campuses where the need to fuss about something leads whining sophomores and grumpy graduate assistants to lay siege to the faculty lounge.

46.   The board ruled last year that the graduate assistants were within its jurisdiction and ordered elections for all eight of the UC campuses.

47.   The decision said that the panel members rejected the argument that graduate assistants who are predominately students cannot also be employees.

48.   The gradaute students organization has not called in the National Labor Relations Board, which has never recognized a union of graduate assistants at a private university.

49.   The graduate teaching assistants lead weekly discussion sections for large lecture courses and teach introductory foreign language and freshman English classes.

50.   The grade strike was called to pressure Yale to recognize a union for graduate teaching assistants.