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...bring their grievances to the public forum. Seeking the media attention that could catapult their concerns to the dockets of local leaders, they secured a total of more than 15,000 endorsements for a petition demanding redress and organized public rallies. They left letters and phone calls for MBTA officials and local leaders, and began taking decibel readings in the subway in an effort to disprove the MBTA’s supposition that subway performance was dangerously loud...
...activism was not confined to the world outside Harvard’s gates. Last week, with cooperation from several Harvard undergraduates, Conrad and his classmate Edward A. Couch ’05 organized a “call-in,” enabling about 100 undergraduates to phone the MBTA and the governor’s office from portable phones near their dining halls...
Conrad, who describes himself as empathetic to the challenges facing administrators of a system as large as the MBTA, says he especially wanted an explanation for the sudden imposition of new regulations on the musicians—an explanation, he says, that was not forthcoming...
Ultimately, efforts from the student community, the musicians and local political leaders—most notably Senator Jarrett T. Barrios, D.-Mass.—proved effective. The Dec. 1 deadline was deferred a week, and Baird and his colleagues secured a meeting with Barrios and MBTA General Manager Michael Mulhern to work toward a resolution...
That resolution came late last week in the form of a compromise with the MBTA that assuaged almost all of the musicians’ initial grievances, leaving only a few contentious points...