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That's 50 cent an hour more than student computer programmers usually make. It's a dollar more than the dorm crew supervisors make. It's two dollars more than other student office workers get. And it comes directly out of the students' pockets--Melendez's salary is financed by the $10 Undergraduate Council fees tacked on to student term bills...
Council officers blame the University. University officials blame the Council. Meanwhile, Melendez spends his weekday afternoons in the basement of Canaday Hall, performing secretarial duties and earning one twelfth of the Council's annual budget...
University officials tell a different story. According to them, full-time students aren't even allowed on the University payroll. "There's been some error made," says Marcia Mintz, assistant dean for financial affairs. She says that Melendez must have "slipped through the channels somehow. There is usually a cross-check against various lists...
...wasn't originally intended to be filled by an undergraduate. Last year's Executive Secretary, in fact, had a Ph. D. degree. But nobody seems willing to do anything now that it's been proven that a student can fill the post. Members of the Undergraduate Council praise Melendez as a competent, efficient office manager. "I think there will always be undergraduates qualified to do this job," Melendez says. So why are we stuck with the seven dollar rate...
...face of it, it seems mean-spirited to take money away from a dedicated hard worker like Melendez. He earns it, doesn't he, by doing the same work that an outsider would? Maybe so, but other students who work at Harvard make much less than their non-student co-workers. In the dining halls, on the security force, and in the libraries all over campus, students make four to six dollars an hour. And that money comes from Harvard's millions, not from the Undergraduate Council's meager coffers...