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Mishy Harman ’08 never wanted a unicycle, but he got one. It took him ten hours of labor at the Pfoho Grille to buy a replacement for the wheel that thieves lifted from his mountain bike last month.“I was devastated,” he said. “The wheel was more than half of the cost of the bike.” Harman is hardly the only Harvard student suddenly faced with missing or maimed means of transportation. Through the end of October, 109 other bikes have been reported stolen from campus...
...talk about our values, if we did not grapple with them and make resolutions, they could easily lose their meaning. This bill—along with a separate campaign led by the Student Labor Action Movement and the janitors themselves all semester—has sparked countless conversations over what our values actually mean to us. Conversations like these are exactly what this University needs...
...authority to take such stances on behalf of their constituents. The UC’s resolution in support of janitors is clearly a political statement. True, the resolution does not have any specific mention of a “living wage” nor does it reference the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) directly. Nevertheless, the resolution does contain a statement of values that it “supports custodial workers” and “affirms that workers at Harvard deserve to be paid at a level commensurate with that of other universities in the area...
...custodial workers’ cause has gained attention on campus this year through the activities of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which argues Harvard should pay its workers a "Living Wage...
...into the club to hear Summers. He said he knew nothing about the subject of the protest, but that he believed its location was not well chosen. The workers and students “should stay on the campus,” he said. Members of the Student Labor Action Movement, a student organization supporting workers, said the protest was intended to focus attention—and pressure—on Harvard. “Harvard doesn’t like to be embarrassed in public, but they should be,” said Andrew H. Golis...