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...Part of the leverage was in effect making Harvard the Nike of higher education,” says McKean. “From the beginning we were cognizant that we had to build a strong base on campus, be accountable to the workers, and run a campaign in good faith. But the administration had no incentive to pay workers more. Part of creating that incentive was always going to be publicity...
...McKean says that during the sit-in, there were at least 10 people working on public relations, doggedly calling reporters for hours each day, and writing and sending out press releases. He adds that they even persuaded a Times reporter to enter the building with them, though it wasn’t until one week into the sit-in that the Times printed any coverage...
...sense on the part of journalists that the occupation was going to last. Soon, the story was everywhere, and Times opinion columnist Bob Herbert dedicated two whole columns to the topic. “Looking at it now, it looks like wall-to-wall media,” says McKean. “But we worked for every inch...
...Maybe we had the upper hand,” McKean concedes, “but I wouldn’t have thought we won until I saw a worker’s paycheck with higher numbers on it.” How much of an effect does he think the media attention had on the sit-in’s resolution, which ended with an administrative commitment to investigate employees’ wages. “It wasn’t simply Harvard looking bad, it was they were losing control of the campus. We were building an enormous amount...
...Ticket distribution] was a lot easier,” said T. Sean McKean ’05, a resident of Pforzheimer House, where a designated person for each class picked up tickets for everyone. “It saved a whole bunch of time...