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...Monday, in an escalation of the protests, about 200 students demanding higher wages for security guards surrounded Mass. Hall and University Hall. Their protest came only hours after the University announced it would order an audit to ensure that the security guards' wages meet Harvard's standards...
...Check thecrimson.com throughout the day for updates. FOR MORE INFO: Students Launch Fast for Guards (May 4, 2007): Around 20 people—including students and other members of the Harvard community—protest in front of Mass. Hall, marking the kickoff of a widely publicized hunger strike aimed at convincing the University to support better working conditions for security guards...
That assumption was a mistake, and my dismissal of the student hunger strike as a form of protest was far more misguided than the movement I had jumped to criticize. Most members of the Harvard community can acknowledge that the poverty wages being offered to Harvard’s security officers are pitiful and unacceptable from an institution as progressive and influential as ours. But few have acknowledged the true gravity of the situation—most notably, the extremely protracted and delayed response on the part of the University...
...appears to be an unfortunate but omnipresent issue of underpaid workers. However, the degree of underpayment of Harvard’s security officers—compounded with the consistent resistance Harvard has shown to alleviating the problem—renders the hunger strike a legitimate and commendable form of protest...
...TIME: You've said you would lead a peaceful protest campaign...