Word: pslmã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...believe in a living wage, but I don’t believe in the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM). How often have we heard this? So far, the arguments that support the living wage but condemn the sit-in and the PSLM??s tactics have focused on the sit-in as an ineffective means. The Crimson, for one, believes the PSLM should leave because its tactics are “more likely to harden the administration’s resolve” than accomplish the goal of $10.25 per hour plus benefits. Perhaps, but that?...
...begin with, one of the PSLM??s tactics seems to be a strategy of shaming people into believing the way they do: some ask “how can you not believe in a living wage?” This is nothing but moral arrogance, and it reeks of leftist censorship...
...Every day I groan inwardly when I read about the PSLM??s ploys to get attention and their relentless displays of self-righteousness. It’s very clear what these guys need to get what they want—a publicist. And who better to do the job? That’s right, I volunteer to be the PSLM publicist. Hooray! In recent days, the scene outside Mass Hall has gotten at least a little spicier—the fluorescent poster trail has gradually creeped from the administrative walls over to Matthews (I love the one that...
...lunatics, Nazis or—worst of all—Republicans. Even the term “living wage” is so loaded that it eliminates any hope for sane discussion. Who could be against giving people a “living wage”? Does that mean PSLM??s opponents advocate a “death wage” instead? They must be pretty rotten people, those anti-PSLM folks: they don’t even want to let the little guys at Harvard keep on living...
...University will not negotiate until it has cajoled the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) out of the only leverage they have by making them leave the building—and then they can go back to a few more years of empty “dialogue” until PSLM??s leaders graduate...