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...winter of 1998, when the Joshua M. Elster sexual assault case took Harvard by storm, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence was founded as an ad-hoc committee that could respond to and galvanize campus sentiment regarding the attack...
...says he makes a point of getting involved in student projects and serving on various ad hoc committees that include students...
...Affleck and Matt Damon, Class of 1992, were among the many faces, famous and otherwise, who joined the fight for a living wage for Harvard workers in the past year. One of the most important voices was that of the University Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies, who after 13 months of work issued a report calling for increased benefits--but no pay hike. While Damon and Affleck were little more than eye-candy, they provided the media attention the University no doubt has hoped to avoid. The rally was the culmination of year-long efforts by the Progressive Student...
...level for all workers, permanent and temporary, that would allow them to live in Cambridge. They have called for a $10.25 an hour base level of pay, adjusted for inflation from $10, which has been adopted by the Cambridge city council as the official Cambridge living wage. The Ad-Hoc Committee's report, which President Neil L. Rudenstine's has accepted and committed the University to fulfilling, has focused almost exclusively on health and job training benefits and bracketed the central issue of wages. In this way, the University's response is far from adequate...
...PSLM attacked an issue that every student can relate to, one with the human face of the janitors and dining hall workers we see everyday. The report by the Ad Hoc Committee was a direct result of their efforts. Harvard speaks often about the creation of community for undergraduates. The living wage campaign has been about all of the members of the Harvard community, including workers...