Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to University Professor Cornel R. West '74, "[Harvard's Living Wage Campaign] is the most significant wave of student activism since the 1960's. It shatters the stereotypes that young students are not concerned with what is right and just." Students have organized and participated in rallies and campaigns to eradicate poverty wages at Harvard because, according to the Harvard Living Wage Campaign web site, "you can't eat prestige." But even if it can't proffer the nourishment that a living wage could, it still never hurts to have prestige on your side...
...members made it clear to President Neil L. Rudenstine and Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 that the battle for a Harvard Living Wage could no longer be regarded as a student movement but rather as a community-based effort. Each signature on the open letter supporting the Living Wage Campaign brings the movement a step closer to the prestige and legitimacy--and ultimate it deserves...
...that the professors and faculty members have pledged their support to what had initially been a cause motivated mostly by students, the University and the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies will confront a campaign unified among students, faculty and community members and workers themselves...
...Fritz's campaign for the union presidency has also come under scrutiny by fellow guards...
Besides alleging that he has received University support, some union members wonder if he conducts his campaign while on the clock...