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Some employees of AlliedBarton, a security firm contracted by Harvard, are accusing their company of ignoring their calls for unionization. Frustrated by what they say is a lack of mechanisms to express grievances such as the withholding of wages and frequent shift changes, guards with Allied, the nation??s largest private security firm, have been trying to unionize for about a year. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615 seeks to represent the AlliedBarton security guards. SEIU organizer Emerson Harris says there are about 250 to 300 Allied officers working at locations across the University. The union...
...Nine of the ten congressmen who compose the Massachusetts House delegation voted against the resolution, which passed 347-65. Among those voting “no” were Rep. Michael E. Capuano, Cambridge’s congressman, Rep. Barney Frank ’61, one of the nation??s most prominent openly gay politicians, and Rep. Martin T. Meehan, the chief sponsor of legislation to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Frank pushed through a change to the law in 1999, removing financial aid funds...
...over 50 percentage points above the national mean. In an article in its Winter 2005/2006 edition, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (JBHE) reported that while nationally black students graduate at a “dismally low 42 percent,” the rate is highest at the nation??s most prestigious institutions. Amherst and Princeton University ranked second and third, and only four of the nation??s “highly-ranked” schools graduate less than 70 percent of black students, according to JBHE. Harvard’s white students graduate...
...just outside Harvard’s gates lies one of the most vibrant Irish communities in the nation??sort of. “I think the mistake that people make generally is that there is a contiguous, single-minded aspect to ‘the Irish community in Boston,’” Brian O’Donovan, the host of the WGBH radio program “A Celtic Sojourn” says. “It’s a very disparate community that does not speak with one voice or act with...
...Dershowitz, considered one of the nation??s top legal minds, is capable of applying legal precedent and practical application to contextualize these international conflicts, far beyond our own interpretations of news and speechs on foreign policy...