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...front of Mass. Hall, marking the kickoff of a 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...
...Siemens, the habits of Germany Inc. have been dying for a long time. In fact, the company has changed so much that it's fair to ask whether Siemens is really a German company anymore. Siemens has businesses in the U.S. ranging from water technologies to medical equipment that employ 104,100 people and generate $31 billion in sales, some 26% of revenue. Asia, where Siemens is building low-emission coal-fired power plants in Shanghai, accounts for 15% of the company's sales. In Europe, excluding Germany, Siemens has 127,400 employees and nearly a third of its sales...
...bittersweet and wryly comical vignette of life on the other side of the tracks. There is a good deal of stereotyping and caricature in the script—complete with rappers, drug dealers, and prostitutes. But considering the BlackCAST actors’ abilities to employ those caricatures to profound dramatic effect, that exaggeration of character was not a bad thing...
...Dorm Crew opportunities: an option detailed in the Student Organizations Handbook urging student groups to employ their members in Dorm Crew, in order to donate the wages to their organization. If this option doesn’t seem too tantalizing, it’s scarcely surprising to see that student groups accumulate debt so quickly...
...This hasn’t always been the case, at least at the College. Indeed, Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) was founded in 1957 to employ scholarship students, not train startup founders. A September 1967 Crimson article cited “the average Harvard student’s apparently natural disdain for business” as the source of campus antipathy to HSA. Budding entrepreneurs had hurdles to jump through trying to innovate. Gates, for one, allegedly went before the Administrative Board for commercially using University computers. And HSA, with its tight monopoly of campus services, rather than fostering innovation, only...