Word: minimum
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...world, work at any place that cannot pay you, or feed other Harvard students. Our undergraduate library became 24-hour and featured a new café, purely because we, students, wanted it. An astounding number of jobs on campus will pay you at or over twice the minimum-wage for doing very little. There are professors (many of them, including tenured ones, as I’ve discovered) who will reply to student emails at three in the morning...
...foolish and wildly disproportionate response considering the urgency and magnitude of the problem. Harvard is already a relatively generous employer, with its unambiguously worded Wage Parity Policy ensuring that subcontracted workers are compensated at the same rate as directly employed ones, and that wage levels are above the minimum established as a living wage by the City of Cambridge. Though the implementation of this policy has been called into question, progress on the issue should be achieved through reasoned argument and debate, rather than through extremist and attention-grabbing tactics that sensationalize and distort the issue. With the strike thankfully...
...immense backlog of building need here to be met,” Pusey said. “One House immediately, two more as quickly as they can be had, and, as well, increased dormitory space for Freshmen, are required to resolve this critical situation. In my judgment these are minimum requirements if we are to return to the best educational use of the House system...
...ensure the well-being of the area. “Community process is so important with all development, big and small,” he said. “It’s what holds developers and the city accountable for keeping what happens to our neighborhoods to a minimum.” —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...applied himself." With eight years in the Senate, his legislative record was thin. Says a former adviser: "While the Senate is filled with ambitious men who aren't in a rush to get home at night, Senator Thompson kept a lean formal schedule, did the bare minimum to get by and then hightailed [it] to the Prime Rib or the Capital Grille...