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Instituting a living wage might invite future protests of a similar manner, certainly something the administration wants to avoid. But the stakes are high for the PSLM also-they have been occupying Mass. Hall for almost two weeks...
...fact, as could be expected, some Westerners were dismayed by all this defensive mimicry and lamented the destruction of older Japanese traditions. Others tittered at the earnest efforts to be civilized in the Western manner. Pierre Loti, the French author of Madame Chrysanthemum, likened the Deer Cry Pavilion to a second-rate casino in a French hot-springs resort, and the dancing, well: "They danced quite properly, my Japanese in Parisian gowns. But one senses that it is something drilled into them, that they perform like automatons, without any personal initiative. If by chance they lose the beat, they have...
...available to him. By far the most thrilling race takes place not on the race track, but on the busy streets of a downtown metropolis, when Bly and Tanto make off with high-performance race cars. The exhilaration of speed is upped another level by the addition of all manner of fatal obstacles including trailers, other cars and pedestrians. Sewer covers fly and, in a nod to Marilyn Monroe’s (in)famous moment, the wind left in the wake of the race cars causes a woman’s skirt to flutter upwards...
...PSLM has employed the tools developed in these movements without good cause, cheapening their legacy and undermining our generation’s ability to use them if a truly worthy cause develops. Coercion is only justified when authorities have exercised their power in an entirely arbitrary and irrational manner. This is not the case today—though it has been in the past...
...coercion is the wrong method for a campaign that is supposed to be about dialogue. Forcibly occupying Massachusetts Hall is not an effective way to protest economic inequality at the University. PSLM accuses Harvard of refusing to listen to its concerns, but it has not behaved in a manner that merits the University’s respect. It has given the moral high ground back to the administration...