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Once again Josh Kaufman uses the protection of Dartboard's lightheartedness to write about something of which he knows very little. The protest by workers outside the Harvard Faculty Club, while supported by workers from the Harvard Dining Services, was ultimately just that: a protest by Faculty Club Workers. Their salaries and treatment have little to do with Kaufman's or anyone else's board plan (except, perhaps, the Faculty...
...surprised that it wasn't more obvious to Kaufman what was going on. After all, the rally was outside the Faculty Club and the one worker he quoted is an employee of the Faculty Club. The Faculty Club, while receiving some support from the University, is largely independent, charging customers in order to meet its costs, and has its own management. And as a former employee of the Faculty Club (Sept. 1993-Sept. 1994), I can vouch for the management's mistreatment of its workers...
...take part in the protest, nor am I involved at all in the union. However I am a former employee who witnessed the type of worker mistreatment that the Faculty Club was protesting against. Perhaps it will make Kaufman happy to know that he can support these justified workers without risking his precious board fee. Perhaps if he weren't so selfishly concerned with his own welfare, he could have explored what it was that he was condemning before condemning it. --Jake Brooks '97 The author is an inactive editor of The Crimson...
True, the campus life committee--headed by Rudd W. Coffey '97, Philip R. Kaufman '98 and Tally Zingher '99--had its share of failures, mainly because of poor postering by the rest of the council. As punishment, the leftists slashed Coffey's budget by 25 percent and reallocated large chunks of future monies to other committees. But if you didn't partake of any council services, no matter. There won't be any next year, because there's no funding for them...
...know the answer, but I know the answer is not the confident cry for punishment that Kaufman supports. Without more intelligent debate on what makes society disapprove of their behavior, we cannot be sure that our system of justice will not deal an injustice to these two students. --Joshua E. Seims...