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...almost 100 Harvard University faculty members made it clear to President Neil L. Rudenstine and Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 that the battle for a Harvard Living Wage could no longer be regarded as a student movement but rather as a community-based effort. Each signature on the open letter supporting the Living Wage Campaign brings the movement a step closer to the prestige and legitimacy--and ultimate it deserves...
Although the University has yet to respond to the open letter, we are eager to hear what Rudenstine and the new Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies have to say. We hope that especially after almost 100 faculty members signed their names in support of a $10 an hour minimum wage, the University takes the efforts of those pressing the issue and signing the petitions seriously...
Rudenstine's comments come one week after Living Wage Campaign supporters presented a letter endorsed by more than 100 faculty members to the administration and as the campaign threatens to stage demonstrations at Commencement...
...letter distributed to members of the Faculty yesterday, Knowles noted that Todd and Christoph Wolff, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, would step down from their respective posts in June 2000. Knowles solicited suggestions for successors that "have the energy, tact and good humor that these important positions demand...
Talk about spin doctors. The furor in India's Congress party over the foreign origins of its leader, Sonia Gandhi, may yet turn out to be an elaborate form of political inoculation. Mrs. Gandhi resigned as party leader Monday, after three senior leaders wrote a letter insisting that no foreign-born person should be allowed to be in charge of India. The action came after Congress's fiercest rival, the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), made clear that it planned to make Mrs. Gandhi's Italian birth the centerpiece of its campaign in an election bereft of policy issues...