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Harvard College has contracted with the same storage and shipping company that elicited complaints from dozens of undergraduates who had used it to store their belongings last summer. The move has sparked skeptical reactions from students, many of whom will have to use the service this year.The College considered a range of other storage companies, and even engaged in negotiations with one, but ultimately decided to stay with last year’s choice, Collegeboxes, Associate Director of Residential Operations Zachary M. Gingo ’98 wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday.Gingo said administrators elected...
...widely publicized hunger strike aimed at convincing the University to support better working conditions for security guards. Eleven members of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) said they would fast in order to garner support for recently unionized security guards employed by subcontractor AlliedBarton, who are currently undergoing contract negotiations with the company. SLAM member and strike participant Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09 said the campaign is necessary to draw the attention of the community and the administration. The students, who officially started their hunger strike at 1:30 p.m. yesterday, said they will...
...misconduct. Gross said last month that he is considering undertaking a review of the Ad Board’s procedures next fall and that students may serve on the committee that will carry out the review. Students present last night also said that undergraduates should have formal input into contract decisions that directly affect them. This week, the College announced that it had taken out a contract with Collegeboxes, the storage and shipping company that drew complaints from students last year. College administrators said the company had reformed its operations, but undergraduates have expressed skepticism about using Collegeboxes again. Students...
...seamless, flexible provider of infrastructure--from lightbulbs to electrical grids--a program the company calls Siemens One. He points to Qatar, where massive development is under way. A number of firms could supply, say, light rail equipment. But Siemens can build a transportation system and power grid in one contract, optimizing its strengths in each of these segments. "If you put some of these things together, you can really have a competitive advantage," says Ken Cornelius, who heads Siemens One. For a hospital, Siemens can deliver 40% of a total project, from imaging machines to IT systems to power management...
Kleinfeld expected to have his contract extended. And with good reason. He presented first-half results that show that all the company's divisions are profitable again for the first time in years. Dieter Scheitor, the IG Metall union representative on Siemens' supervisory board who gave Kleinfeld a shove, says what matters most is whether all the bad news is out now. "Experience teaches us that the scandal probably has not reached its final act yet," he says...