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Last week, Harvard students and Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely '60 rallied against the apparent firing--a.k.a. "voluntary retirement"--of Joe Hickey, Adams House maintenance crew chief. Hickey has faithfully worked at Harvard for six years and has been at Adams for four...
...well-loved by students, is a central figure of the Adams House community. However, despite Hickey's excellent, longstanding service, Harvard has "offered" Hickey severance...
...Hickey is thus the latest casualty of the Faculty of Arts and Science's (FAS) disregard for the community. Following the trend in taking actions which long-time maintenance workers see as efforts to push them out, FAS has recently decided Hickey is not worth keeping, and intends to replace...
...abhor this decision and are writing in the hope that perhaps, this once, the demonstration of student support for Hickey will encourage the FAS to reconsider its decision. We agree with Hickey about Harvard's inhumanity. As he said, "You would think that this glorious [institution] would just care a little more." (See the front page of the Jan. 22 Crimson...
...decision to seemingly fire Hickey might make sense if Harvard had slipped a point on NASDAQ. But Harvard is a "non-profit" corporation and, as such, cannot offer stock. Harvard has the means to continue paying for Hickey's employment without batting an eye. It should reward a worker like Hickey, not punish him for being loyal. And it certainly shouldn't bemoan its own poverty as justification for spurning Hickey and his peers...