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...watching him, and he clearly wasn’t fixing the fire alarms,” Bach added. Suspicious, Bach and his roommates decided to follow Vick as he left the room, and then confronted him. “He then started picking stuff up, pretending to be a janitor,” Bach said. “His stories kept getting crossed.” So the roommates distracted Vick with questions while someone called HUPD. Alex J. Vannoni ’07 said that as they tried to keep Vick around until the police arrived, Vick was just...
...stifle its ability to diversify. “The universities are a major employment sector in Cambridge,” said Rubenstein. “But we also have a diversified economy—including education, health care, government, biotechnology, and information technology.” Yet some Harvard janitors argued that despite Harvard’s contribution to Cambridge’s economy, it has failed to provide a reasonable quality of life to its workers. “We recognize that Harvard has the most employees in Cambridge but as Harvard workers, we don’t condone...
...while, Fitzgerald approached every task, even his job as a janitor at Amherst, as if it were a mission. "I know this sounds like malarkey, but if he were not a prosecutor, he'd be a priest," says Richard Phelan, a Chicago lawyer and friend of Fitzgerald's. "He's totally and completely dedicated...
...Harvard sit-in,” said Foglizzo. “We want to travel the country, talk to students, and talk about making real change.” The first issue on the current SLAM agenda is the achievement of a living wage for Harvard’s janitors, said to SLAM member Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, who is also a Crimson editor. “Right now we’re counting down to justice on Nov. 15, the day the janitors’ contract is being negotiated,” said Gould-Wartofsky...
...lost respect for those whom the campaign is intended to help. Perhaps there is actually a more monetarily selfish reason to be resistant to such a wage increase. (For example, I might oppose the campaign because I am disinclined to spend a few extra dollars on a needy Harvard janitor.) After all, according to the living-wage proponents, it is the very intrinsic human worth of the lowest-paid workers that fundamentally entitles them to such a minimum level of wages. But herein lies the dilemma. At the start of a living-wage campaign, all of its proponents agree that...