Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impression whatsoever. You will discover things that you may or may not wish to know, like the genesis of the tradition of shouting "Rinehart!" and the goldfish swallowing fad, which was originated in the Harvard Union on March 3, 1939 by Lothrop Withington Jr. '42. If kiosks, unionizing shuttle bus drivers and the proposed Third World center make you wonder what passed for controversy at Harvard in generations gone by, The Crimson Anthology will give you a taste...
...society shifted over the decade, its changes, to whatever degree, were reflected in The Crimson, as the meticulous, somewhat stolid style of earlier years gave way to openness and experimentation. And for those who have noted the later careers of writers like Timothy' Crouse '68 (Boys on the Bus), Frank Rich '71 (now chief New York Times drama critic), Halberstam, J. Anthony Lukas '55 (Times Pulitzer prize-winner), Mike Kinsley '72 (The New Republic), James Fallows '69 (The Atlantic Monthly) and numerous others, it is interesting to see what they wrote before "maturing" into the realm of slick publications...
...SAGA of unionizing student shuttle bus drivers during the past three weeks could be mistaken for a case study from Lipsey and Steiner, the Ec 10 textbook...
DRIVING A BUS has nothing to do with any student/teacher relationship. The shuttle drivers work for part of a vast bureaucracy which has enormous power at its disposal. Under the guise of financial assistance, Harvard possesses a captive labor force--the students. Instead of having to pay wages determined on the free market, the University can label a job as financial aid, and pay students any wage it chooses. The students, for lack of anything better or any apparent way of changing the system, must accept...
Although they may not have known, it the shuttle bus drivers had the opportunity to ask these questions, and possibly force Harvard into providing some honest answers. Unlike the drivers or EC 10, Harvard will never run out of bullshit...