SATIRE: Bollinger, “We must preserve the authentic graduate student experience of not making a living wage” SATIRE: Bollinger, “We must preserve the authentic graduate student experience of not making a living wage” Yingjie Wang / Staff Illustrator By Venice Ohleyer | April 8, 2021, 11:20 AM After three weeks of the Graduate Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers strike, University President Lee Bollinger announced that the University must reject the union’s demands in the spirit of “preserving the authentic graduate student experience of financial and emotional suffering.” “Not making a living wage has always been a core part of Columbia’s graduate studies program,” Bollinger explained. “It is part of what makes us who we are.”