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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...
...Kleinfeld's future took a dismal turn on April 19, when his predecessor and mentor, Heinrich Von Pierer, most recently the chairman of the supervisory board and under whose watch the alleged crimes occurred, resigned under pressure. The board then took off the table discussions to extend Kleinfeld's contract, which is due to expire in September, until it had a better idea of where the investigation was heading. It was a prudent action, but Kleinfeld, disgusted by the lack of confidence, took himself off the table, telling the company he would no longer be available...
...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...