Word: orderlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson executive charged with running circulation is very much aware the distribution system has had trouble this year. David I. Kim '01 understands that "it's not perfect. We're aware of the problems." In order to find out where the delivery problems are concentrated, The Crimson has a Web site (http://www.thecrimson.com/delivery) where student complaints about distribution problems are compiled. According to Kim, the Web site is effective and helpful: "It makes it easier to complain, and we pass on the information to the deliverers." Still, he admits that many people complain...
True, but more drastic action is needed to get circulation in order. The Quad problems seem particularly chronic. Almost every day, piles of newspapers sit in the corner of the dining halls. Perhaps the maintenance workers who deliver The Crimson need more direct supervision. Students have come to expect The Crimson at their doors every morning, and many of us rely on it to find out what is going on around campus. Student groups use it to advertise, expecting that all undergraduates will receive the paper...
...self-proclaimed "wildlife zoologist" specializing in chiroptera (which she is careful to explain means "bats"), Dina Meyer's Dr. Sheila Casper makes one believe that it is in fact possible to receive a doctorate via mail order. Meyer (of Starship Troopers fame) is laughable as a bat-loving researcher. In one of the film's most priceless exchanges, Casper tells Sheriff Emmett Kimsey (Lou Diamond Phillips) "I could never kill a bat" because it "would go against everything that I've come to believe in." This attitude lasts until one of the little darlings gets caught in her hair...
Harvard's resistance to paying a living wage is part of a larger effort by Harvard administrators to subject directly hired, unionized workers to terrible and demoralizing working conditions in order to replace them with cheaper, subcontracted labor--pushing wages down as the endowment goes up. For example, Harvard forced its security guards to work for nearly five years without a contract, by refusing to negotiate in good faith. Harvard's disrespectful treatment degraded the jobs of its unionized security guards so thoroughly that, this fall, roughly half of them decided that they would rather accept a buy-out than...
Maybe it would have been better simply to scuttle the vote in order to save face. Maybe the treaty should even have been ratified as a symbolic statement of American leadership in nuclear deescalation; it is, after all, better than nothing...