While the distinguished faculty at the Harvard Law School busied itself discouraging free speech and spreading the gospel of political rectitude, another farce was unfolding a little to the south, at Yale University. As The New York Times has reported at tedious length, graduate students at Yale have organized and were petitioning the university with their grievances. In a “job action” designed to coerce more money from the university, some disgruntled graduate teaching assistants even refused to turn in grades for their classes. These students recently voted to end their job action when the university threatened not to renew their teaching appointments. In our view, university officials were right to dismiss demands by the graduate students and to discipline those who reneged on their responsibilities to their students. As one spokesman put it, they are “students, not employees.”

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