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PSLM members say their protest—strategically located in the building housing the office of University President Neil L. Rudenstine—also demands that the University join the Worker’s Rights Consortium, an independent factory monitoring board...
...other top colleges continue to limit aid to those in need, their actions are fueling a bidding war among schools eager to win kids away from Princeton--or any other college above them in the perceived pecking order. As a result, observes James Monks of M.I.T.'s Consortium on Financing Higher Education, "financial aid is no longer viewed as a charitable means of admitting a 'poor scholar,' but rather as a price discount to which an applicant is entitled and which is subject to negotiating and bargaining...
...nearly two years, HSAS has been protesting Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by manufacturing companies such as Nike to monitor working conditions in foreign factories...
...group urges Harvard to instead join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), a group run by labor and human rights organizations...
...other top colleges continue to limit aid to those in need, their actions are fueling a bidding war among schools eager to win kids away from Princeton--or any other college above them in the perceived pecking order. As a result, observes James Monks of M.I.T.'s Consortium on Financing Higher Education, "financial aid is no longer viewed as a charitable means of admitting a 'poor scholar,' but rather as a price discount to which an applicant is entitled and which is subject to negotiating and bargaining...