By Doug Cunningham

Today is a day of action in the grad student teaching assistant strike at NYU. The Grad Student Organizing Committee , or GSOC, is asking undergrads like Julian Pena-Vargas to boycott classes in support of the strikers.

[Julian Pena-Vargas] : "What's gonna happen is we've put out a request for students and faculty to boycott classes on or off campus - not attend any classes on this day and instead to come out in support of GSOC at twelve o' clock noon at Washington Square."

GSOC's Jenny Shaw says an ultimatum from NYU administration threatening the strikers with loss of their stipends if they don't go back to work by next week won't break the grad student union…

[Jenny Shaw] : "It's a bullying tactic designed to intimidate us and I think that the administration needs to know that we will not bow to bullying. And nobody should accept bullying, and people should stand up to bully's. And that's what this is and that's what we're going to do."