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What our community has been saying for the last year is that we believe there's an obvious and a just way to use a tiny portion of this money: Give it to workers. It would cost Harvard $10 million, or three-fifths of one percent of its budget, to implement a living wage. This cost would be unnoticeable amid the extraordinary expenses that the University assumes without complaint. And yet it would profoundly change the lives of at least 1,000 families in our community. We believe that this is a price worth paying...
...representatives from developing countries, is debt forgiveness. Economic development in many of the world's poorest countries is paralyzed by a crippling $350 billion debt burden, the bulk of which is owed to the IMF and World Bank. Many of the world's 40 poorest countries spend a considerable portion of their GNP (which in many cases is smaller than their debt) simply on paying the interest owed. It's a point of consensus now between all but the most diehard conservatives that without significant debt relief, billions of the world's poorest people will remain mired in poverty...
Recent campaigns by members of Harvard Right to Life (HRL) have highlighted an obscure fact about the required University Health Services (UHS) fee: Students can receive a refund of the portion of their fee that is allocated to subsidize abortions. Although the actual refund is literally a few cents, and the amount of the subsidy is trivial compared to the high cost of obtaining an abortion, HRL has nevertheless encouraged anti-abortion students to register moral objection to the medical procedure by requesting the refund. We not only strongly discourage students from following this irresponsible advice, but we emphatically urge...
...some sense, UHS already recognizes the importance of insulating health funding from personal preferences--anti-abortion refunds are the only medical refunds offered to students. But we wonder why such an exception exists, and why this refund option is exceedingly easy to exercise. Students may withdraw whatever portion of their health service fee would have gone to subsidize an abortion by simply check-marking a specific...
Each female undergraduate at Harvard is automatically a member of RUS because of her gender and consequently, a portion of her activity fees fund the group. According to the RUS website, the Radcliffe Union of Students "is the voice for all female undergraduates at Harvard" and "conducts panels, weekly discussion groups, and events such as Take Back the Night, to insure that the voices of all women at Harvard are heard." Unfortunately, including abortion activism as a component of TBTN does not ensure that the voices of all women at Harvard are heard. In fact, it serves to effectively silence...