Word: labors
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DIED. ARTHUR RUDOLPH, 89, rocket scientist; in Hamburg, Germany. Rudolph developed the towering Saturn V booster that hurled American astronauts to the moon in 1969. But in the 1980s he was driven into exile after the Justice Department linked him to the use of forced labor at a Nazi V-2 rocket factory...
Something needs to be done. Harvard could simply spend more money, but since that's about as likely as Tibetan Yak-racing becoming an Olympic sport, we obviously need another source of labor. My suggestion is to take all students ad-boarded for disciplinary offenses, chain them together and let them shovel. The Harvard Civil Liberties Union might protest, but by the time they get an injunction, it'll be spring...
...after 138 students, faculty and union workers were arrested by the New Haven Police, graduate teachers yesterday filed a charge against Yale University with the National Labor Relations Board...
Since Harvard's legitimacy in the community depends upon the existence of Harvard-sponsored public service, and since student labor is a precondition for the existence of such service, Harvard has a responsibility to give a substantive voice to students and organizations involved in public service...
...since students are the primary donors of public service, they may have insight into how public service might be carried out effectively, and may have direct understanding of how their actions affect Harvard's legitimacy as a member of the larger community. By virtue of their knowledge and their labor, students are owed a substantive voice in the determination of public service policy. --Robert Bird The writer is a Research Assistant in Chemistry...