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...many PSLM members, for whom the maintenance of good public relations is of paramount importance. In the days before the sit-in, PSLM’s press corp spent over sixteen hours each day phoning media outlets—from regional cable operators to international wire news syndicates. Aaron Bartley claims that the PSLM “created relationships with reporters from all over the country, just like in a political campaign...
Beyond meticulous organization, the PSLM was conscious from the outset of the other factors conspiring to raise their media prominence into the stratosphere. Bartley concedes that there “was a definite visual intensity of the image which we didn’t even need to choregraph,” this photogenic nature of the strike stemming in no small part from the mystique of Harvard itself. But, across from the omniscient eye of John Harvard, the students realised that Harvard’s hallowed name was both a boon and a burden for their cause...
...Bartley concurs. He attacks Harvard’s “culture of acceptance. When you have I-banks and Goldman Sachs knocking on your door, it’s hard to believe there’s anything else out there when all you see is plenty.” He speculates that widespread resistance to the sit-in tactic, as demonstrated by a Crimson poll which found that only one-third of students agreed with this strategy, is due partly to “an unfamiliarity with how direct social action can change society...
...arvard employment is particularly inelastic,?says PSLM member and third-year law student Aaron D. Bartley. ?t? far more valuable for the University to have a clean campus than it would be to have a dirtier campus for less.?Additionally, Bartley says that through the student-union collaboration, labor unions have become strong enough that they simply would not allow workers to be fired without a legitimate reason...
...students would prevent that from happening,?Bartley says. ?here would be demonstrations. Harvard knows that and wouldn? even try it.? Though Neumark? study examines the elasticity of cities?labor demands relative to wages, no studies have been conducted to look at the employment effects of a wage floor on large private employers...