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Indeed, this weekend, the Harvard College Fund Assembly and the Harvard Alumni Association will host thousands of alumni in Cambridge for a series of committee meetings, faculty lectures, and fancy dinners to celebrate the very best in their alma mater--especially the $2.325 billion raised in the recent Capital Campaign. But even as this weekend's events symbolize Harvard's enormous wealth and power, a more disturbing relationship between wealth and poverty lurks beneath this seemingly pristine landscape of alumni satisfaction...
...centuries ago, Adam Smith, the founding father of capitalism, reminded us that the wealth of any nation could be measured by the number of people who live in poverty. The same can be said of Harvard. At a time when university administrators and alumni donors are busy celebrating the accumulation of great wealth, we would do well to remember that several thousand workers in our midst share neither the wealth nor the self-indulgence it so easily inspires...
...paying every worker at Harvard a living wage of at least $10--is about ten million dollars a year, hardly an insurmountable hurdle for our well-oiled fund raising machine. For many of us, this means the difference between salmon and chicken, open bar and cash bar, at alumni appreciation dinners. For workers, however, it might very well mean the difference between poverty and lives of genuine decency. Alumni ought to be mindful of this while celebrating our successes this weekend. More than that, however, we should seize this opportunity to make sure that the university does the right thing...
Timothy Patrick McCarthy '93 is a tutor in history and literature. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association...
...trying to establish a program here that our alumni base and the Cambridge and Boston community can be proud of," Mazzoleni said. "We are committed to returning this school to national prominence. I just hope people are patient...