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...individuals with the most power to implement a University-wide living wage policy, President Neil L. Rudenstine and Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67, do not yet seem to see this. Nearly two months after the Living Wage Campaign sent a letter requesting a meeting with the president and provost to discuss commitment to a living wage (by May 1, 1999) and implementation of a living wage (by Sept. 1, 1999), that meeting finally took place two weeks ago. Rudenstine did not attend. In the cordial and candid meeting, Fineberg announced that he and the president are delegating the issue...
...president and the provost have also indicated Harvard's obligation to exercise "fiscal prudence," to maintain high academic standards while avoiding significant increases in tuition. These fiscal responsibilities are important, to be sure. But Harvard's primary income is not from tuition, and its primary expenses are not service employee wages. We must reevaluate the priorities of our University community, and at the same time, keep some perspective. Harvard spends plenty of money on wine and cheese at the Faculty Club. Is this fiscally prudent? In this bastion of wealth, why are presently-low service worker wages considered some outrageous...
...look forward to any conclusions it might reach, since our own research committee has discovered the difficulty of attaining accurate and comprehensive labor statistics from Harvard. But we have insisted all along that the task force must decide how, not whether, to implement the living wage, and the provost made clear in our recent meeting that the task force has no such charge. We left the meeting cognizant that two potential channels for the implementation of a living wage--real leadership by the president and provost or the positive conclusions of a task force with the power to implement according...
...therefore have openly renewed our commitment to two primary methods: expanding our broad base of support and bringing additional nonviolent pressure to bear upon the Harvard administration. The president and the provost need to take decisive action. Their response thus far to the Campaign does not capture the urgency of the situation. Our intensified action will clarify this urgency...
...president and the provost have also indicated Harvard's obligation to exercise "fiscal prudence," to maintain high academic standards while avoiding significant increases in tuition. These fiscal responsibilities are important, to be sure. But Harvard's primary income is not from tuition, and its primary expenses are not service employee wages. We must reevaluate the priorities of our University community, and at the same time, keep some perspective. Harvard spends plenty of money on wine and cheese at the Faculty Club. Is this fiscally prudent? In this bastion of wealth, why are presently-low service worker wages considered some outrageous...