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...administration’s intensifying drive to outsource is clear evidence that meetings are not and can never be enough to end poverty wages on campus. It is farcical to pretend that administrators take seriously the concerns of the thousands of students, faculty, alums, workers and community members who make up the Living Wage Campaign when their zeal for slashing wages proceeds unabated. We have met with the president, the provost, the vice-president for administration, the director of labor relations and on down the line countless times for years now, and we do not take these meetings lightly...
...community members have no power in meetings, and administrators continue to agree to meetings because it allows them to perpetuate the appearance that they are listening to the rest of us. And the Harvard Corporation has so much confidence in their power that they don’t even pretend to listen; they have refused to meet with us for almost a year...
...going to pretend I don't speak English," she said...
...Emerson says, "I am weary of these dogmatizers. I tire of these hacks of routine... why pretend life is so simple a game, when we know how subtle and elusive the Proteus is?.. Why fancy that you have all the truth in your keeping? There is much to say on all sides...
...Perhaps those numbers don't carry the kind of shock value they might have 10 years ago, when denizens of America's comfortable middle-class communities could still pretend gun violence only happened in urban (read: black and Hispanic) schools...