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Clearly, HCECP has not been as open to community input as possible. Its recent meeting at the ARCO Forum was ostensibly an opportunity for members of HCECP to hear public comment on its initial findings. But in choosing to wait until the day of the meeting to release its report, the HCECP largely defeated that purpose. One day is hardly enough time for the Harvard community to digest the contents of a technical 30-page report and provide thoughtful commentary...
...Monday that she was resigning from the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), we could not help but wonder at the timing of her announcement. On the very day that HCECP both released its preliminary findings confirming poverty wages at Harvard and held a public forum at ARCO, Hoxby cast a pall over the committee proceedings. She attacked as unprincipled a number of committee members appointed by former University President Neil L. Rudenstine because, she claimed, they do not respect “a diversity of opinions” in the Harvard community...
...Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies broke the silence of its confidential deliberations about the living wage controversy yesterday, as the group released information it has gathered and hosted a public meeting at the ARCO Forum...
...Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), popularly dubbed the Katz Committee after its chair, Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, has been charged with examining the University wage and employment policies. The committee is scheduled to release its preliminary data at the ARCO Forum this evening. In a letter to The Crimson, Hoxby questioned whether that data came from a balanced process...
...ARCO Forum lecture on Oct. 10, Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ’74, arguably one of the most electrifying figures in academia, illuminated the connections between recent events and hip-hop culture. As one of the most influential forms of black art, hip-hop can be surprisingly relevant to the sentiments of many Americans in light of current events. “A blues people [African-Americans] can teach Americans now that everybody has the blues,” said West, who argued that America is now experiencing what it feels like to be displaced...