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...Harvard should] make this school a place where you do not have to avert your eyes when you pass a janitor in the hallway," he said. "If someone's working as a janitor as a second job, you obviously don't have time to go to the Fogg to see the latest exhibit...
...December, The Human Stain makes a good case for the decline of humanism, civility and common sense. Roth also gives us a bleak look beneath the surface of the nation's current self-satisfaction. Silk's off-campus troubles include an affair with Faunia Farley, a 34-year-old janitor who is crazed because her two children were killed in a house fire while she was having sex in the driveway. Les, her estranged husband, must add that anguish to his tormenting memories of Vietnam combat...
Personally, I know a janitor who makes less than $10 per hour and who is struggling to pay for his wife's cancer treatment. I also know subcontracted security guards who are eligible for some benefits, but cannot accept them because they realize that when they cost the subcontracting company $9 to $9.50 per hour, they lose their jobs. Interestingly, administrators typically argue against a living wage by claiming that wage standards ignore benefits which workers receive. Perhaps most disturbingly, the workers facing these intolerable circumstances are disproportionately immigrants and people of color--people whom Harvard administrators evidently consider...
...Since the class of poverty-wage workers on campus numbers in the thousands and is comprised by immigrants from Haiti, Jamaica, Brazil and Mexico as well as blacks and whites, any generalization about "the experience" of a typical Harvard janitor or dishwasher is bound to be superficial. But life on $7-per-hour in the preposterously expensive Boston metro region does present certain standard challenges. Skyrocketing rents force a mean choice for Harvard's janitors, dining workers and security guards: Work literally 85 hours a week to bring home the money needed to pay the $1,100 one-bedroom rents...
...sell his own supply-side tax cuts by claiming the expansion as a product of Reagan-era tax policies. But economies expand and contract according to their own rules - yes, folks, even Alan Greenspan himself would tell you that his job is closer to that of a janitor than of an architect - and aren't easily swayed to the whims of politicians. Although most candidates are quite happy to discuss how to spend the budget surpluses that will, at least according to the more optimistic accountants, be generated by the boom, the spoilsport questions of what to do when...