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...Fellowship—a prize that comes with $25,000—only one student received the award. Katherine A. Carroll ’09, who was awarded the fellowship, will continue her work as a coordinator at a youth center in Dorchester after graduation. In addition, Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09 and Valonda J. Harris ’09 received the Stride Rite Senior Recognition Prize, a cash award given to students who have demonstrated consistent contributions to public service in their undergraduate careers. Last year, seven of these awards were distributed. Corbin...
...director of the Harvard University Trademark Program, wrote in an e-mail in February that Harvard would consider renewing its contract with Russell if the company followed recommendations of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a global workers’ rights group of which Harvard is a member. Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, a SLAM member, said that SLAM is concerned that the investigation leading to the FLA’s recommendations were flawed. In response, SLAM brought Salma Mirza, a member of the national staff of the United Students Against Sweatshops, and Mirna Chavarr?...
...secret weapon” and seek to use it to call attention to the workers’ plight. “[The workers] don’t have the same access to people that can make changes at Harvard as the students do,” Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09 says. “We want to help get the stories of workers out.”In order to accomplish this, SLAM hosted a panel, composed of workers, that aimed to give Harvard employees a chance to speak. SLAM also staged...
Despite some panic buying, there are no immediate signs of anyone fleeing Mexico City. Shop owner Humberto Garcia says that he is not worried about getting the virus himself. "I'm strong, I'll resist it," he says, flexing his arm muscles. Architect Maria Aguilera, 31, is also unmoved. "People are just freaking out a bit," she says. However, government worker Victor Mondragon, 45, says he may vacate the city in the next few days. "I want to see how bad this thing is," he says. "If thousands start dropping dead, then I am going to run for my life...
...Internet has helped facilitate communication—but communication with whom? While we have been able to connect more easily with, say, Christina Aguilera or total strangers from the other side of the globe we meet on MySpace or in chat rooms, we have been separated from the people that matter. According to a Stanford study, those who use the Internet frequently—an estimated 31 percent of the U.S. population—spend an average of 70 minutes fewer per day interacting with family than those who use the Internet less frequently...