Word: elfenbein
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Having started her Harvard career by participating in the 21-day Massachusetts Hall sit-in for the Progressive Students’ Labor Movement (PSLM) in the spring of 2001, Elfenbein has become the face of campus activism. Now, as she finds herself nearing the end of her Harvard career, Elfenbein, who is also a Crimson editor, will leave in much the same way she started. Less than a month ago, she and three other Harvard seniors spent a Friday night in a Miami jail cell after being arrested during protests outside the summit meeting of the Free Trade Area...
...recounted that when Elfenbein was arrested, the police accused her of kicking through the back window of a patrol car. “It was really kinda funny—that and the idea of her showing up at the airport still in her jail clothes,” says...
...rebel,” Elfenbein insists, despite consistently putting herself at the center of campus controversy. Elfenbein does occasionally put down the protest signs for more typical college extracurriculars. She often works late into the night with The Advocate Features Board, she plays a mean game of Radcliffe rugby, and, in her junior year, she wrote a column for The Crimson about her meditations on Harvard life...
...haggard. He had a fleck of spit on his lower lip and he said, ‘I will resign before I allow you to coerce this university into accepting your demands.’ That wasn’t quite how it worked out,” says Elfenbein...
Despite having a Harvard president in shambles, Eflenbein says that the incident was the point of lowest morale for the sit-in participants. “I always liked Rudenstine personally and that made it hard,” says Elfenbein...