UCSC can easily marshal the resources to get your grades, get you graduated, etc. The fact that UCSC chooses not to in order to divide you from the strikers is intentional.
People don't go on strike because it's fun or popular. And strikes are not meant to be convenient.
Unless UCSC is hiring water boarding specialists, no they can’t. The TA refused to give them up.
2) Waterboarding and torture have been demonstrated over and over to be ineffective. That mere idea that they might ever be a useful tool is pernicious and needs to be denounced even when said in jest.
(Also, don't forget about the employees in billing, grant handling, the professors bringing in big grants, etc)
Back in the day of unions, strikes were not about making a statement, they were literally bending the employer to the will of the workers with brute force. The workers- collectively- held the power. Unresolved strikes literally sunk companies. It feels like that's been forgotten somewhat.
Strikes are supposed to squeeze the employer, e.g. because their factory isn't producing and the employer is losing face & sales to competitors.
All the strikes at UCSC seem to wind up squeezing the student body, which 1) doesn't call the shots and 2) is paying fixed costs.
Last one I remember was a transit strike where the strikers closed all entrances & exits to the campus. That did not win them many supporters.