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...Sunday evening I sat down with twenty-two of my classmates and president-elect Larry Summers to discuss the future of Harvard University. Gathered around a banquet table at the Charles Hotel, we broke bread and at the same time broke ground on the issues that are most vexing for undergraduates at the College: advising, student/faculty interaction, the core curriculum, the “living wage.” During the course of our two-and-a-half hour conversation pedagogical ideals were debated and moral standards called to task. For a brief moment, students’ voices found...
...began with a surprise visit to the occupied building by President-elect Lawrence H. Summers, accompanied by Rudenstine and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles...
...this is complicated by the fact that in two months’ time, Harvard will have a new president and a new administration. President-elect Lawrence H. Summers has never publicly expressed his views on a living wage at Harvard, and the protesters’ efforts to sway the current administration are handicapped somewhat by Rudenstine’s status as a lame-duck president. The Rudenstine administration is no doubt hesitant to saddle its successor with a decision, and Summers’ views on the subject will make the current discussion almost moot come July. Summers should therefore take...
...ELECT SOMAN FOR PSLM PUBLICIST...
Sure, PSLM has made some mistakes in its three-year campaign for a living wage. Greeting President-elect Lawrence H. Summers with a contentious rally from the get-go wasn’t a great idea, and the sit-in’s first few days—with sleep-deprived Yard residents raising a ruckus and a daytime rally accidentally drowning out a Holocaust Remembrance Day reading nearby—seemed to only hurt the campaign, not help it. But over the past five days the tide turned, with the protesters gaining the support of both Massachusetts senators...