Although both sides felt they had come close to reaching an agreement, the contract expired March 15 without a pact.
GEO represents more than 1,800 graduate student teaching, research and staff assistants, who last week protested the lack of a settlement by holding classes in hallways, a grade-inteaching assistants graded papers in front of Cafe Fino and the Fishbowl (Angell Hall computing site), and a rally and dance on the Diag.