India, Nov. 10 -- A Harvard professor whose midterm exam was disrupted by a planned picket has said that the "deliberate disruption" ended up negatively affecting his undergraduate students. In a piece published November 6 in The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard University, Professor David S Jones criticised the disruption of his class on October 29.

Harvard graduate students are striking to demand better pay and benefits, stronger protections against harassment and discrimination, and safeguards for noncitizen student workers. The Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Auto Workers (HGSU-UAW), which represents research assistants and teaching fellows, has accused the university of failing to adequately address these con...