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...administration’s announcement does not end the issue, at least while the committee’s membership and timetable are not yet fixed. In order to provide the most thorough study of the issue, in contrast to the first Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies, the proposed Mills Plus committee should include as official members professors, workers and students. Faculty members from various disciplines will be able to provide expertise on all aspects of the living wage question, including economic, sociological, moral and historical issues. The committee’s investigative work would also be helped by participation...
...original Ad-Hoc Faculty Committee on Employment Policies took a full 13 months to release its 100-plus page report last spring...
...Since the Ad-Hoc committee laid much of the groundwork, University Vice President Paul S. Grogan, who attended Friday's meeting, said that a new committee could address a more well-defined set of questions...
...Additionally, Steorts makes the even more surprising and unsubstantiated claim that paying a living wage is somehow inconsistent with Harvard’s mission. However, according to the language used in its very own Ad Hoc Committee Report of May 4, 2000, the University is committed to improving the Harvard community as a whole by treating our workers with dignity and compensating them fairly. I feel that over the past year, Harvard has made some progress in this area...
...Saraiya, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania and the immediate past president of the IC, said the IC has very little liquid money and instead relies almost exclusively upon ad-hoc donations to fund its events...