Word: janitor
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...seen over the last few years. They are the same guilty middle class suburbanites who hunger for a social cause as grand as the movements their parents joined in college, even if no such cause currently exists. They are the superheroes of non-issues who can smell a distressed janitor or a non-fair-trade cup of coffee from a mile away and can instantly mount an impassioned protest without even thinking...
Closer to home, Harvard janitor Daniel M. Mejia said he marched in the rally to support his fellow workers, though his situation has improved...
...July I’d wondered how long the graffiti would last. Would an administrator make the call or would a janitor simply decide to scour it down The white-out could have been removed with a fingernail...
Mitchell—who is often mistakenly thought to be of Irish descent—was in fact born to Lebanese parents on August 20, 1933 in a rundown distinct of Waterville, Me. His father, who worked as a janitor at Maine’s Colby College, instilled in Mitchell the love of American democracy that led to his political career...
...well as a few who have yet to be persuaded. I felt continually grateful to be at a supportive institution rather than the university at which one senior professor made his advisees tar his roof, or the one at which an underemployed faculty member had to moonlight as a janitor. The academic career path may be a labor of love, but as many of you are discovering in your romantic lives, there’s a fine line between love and utter humiliation...