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Students Fast for Guards (April 27, 2007): Around 75 student activists begin a day-long fast in an attempt to sway the contract negotiations. The day was marked with a protest in front of Massachusetts Hall in which students attempted to hand deliver a letter to Interim President Derek...
SLAM To Fast for Security Guards (April 24, 2007): SLAM announces that its members will begin a fast—which could escalate into a hunger strike of “indefinite lengths and proportions”—in an attempt to influence the negotiations of Harvard’s security guards with their employer AlliedBarton...
...Allston campus planning process to consider incorporating this type of space into their design. The shorter-term renovations would address systems-related issues, such as roofs, fire safety, alarms, piping, heating, and water. The plans outlined for the 30-year renovation would change room configurations, partially in an attempt to decrease the number of walkthrough living situations. The committee’s discussion was inspired by the model Yale has used to renovate its residential colleges, in which students from one college each year relocate to a designated “swing space” while their aging rooms...
...bucking for a U.S. ttorney post, despite the fact that he had limited experience as a prosecutor. The other was Monica Goodling, 33, the department's White House liaison, the product of a law school where more than half her graduating class flunked the bar exam on the first attempt. A March 2006 memo signed by Gonzales delegated authority to the two of them over the hiring and firing of 135 non-civil service Justice Department staffers. Amid the scandal, both have resigned...
...true that Giuliani's strategists would have preferred to see the day of this gamble delayed. But Rudy's tongue-tied attempt to nuance his views in the first Republican candidates' debate last week brought the issue to a head. Giuliani is said to believe that his straight talk on a controversial issue will underline his reputation as a forthright leader. After all, the religious conservatives have never been comfortable with the thrice-married, gay-tolerant former mayor of New York City. In that respect, he is calculating he had a lot to gain from a display of backbone...