HGSU-UAW Picket Disrupts Harvard GenEd Midterm, Draws Rebuke From Deming, Claybaugh

Sebastian B. Connolly and Summer E. Rose
The Harvard Crimson

More than 20 striking members of the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Auto Workers chanted and sounded air horns outside Emerson Hall Thursday as roughly 250 students took a GenEd midterm inside.

Some students taking the exam for GenEd 1116: “Biomedical Ethics and History” wore earplugs provided by their professor or noise-cancelling headphones in an effort to block the noise. “They situated themselves right outside the wall towards that back classroom,” Brianna “Bri” L. DiMauro ’29 said, adding that neither the windows nor the earplugs effectively blocked the noise.

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