Word: pslmã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...University’s figures are taken from a 100-page report released last spring. In response to PSLM??s agitation for a living wage, a high-ranking committee of faculty members and administrators recommended last spring that the University enlarge the scope of worker benefits, including health insurance, education and access to campus facilities...
...whose work allows their University to function is an issue of immense gravity. These students have, at some sacrifice to themselves, taken this issue to its source, a University with a $19 billion endowment that cannot pay its workers the same salary as the city of Cambridge. Gewolb criticizes PSLM??s tactics and says only reason, not pressure, can be used to effect change. I wonder if he believes this is the lesson of the civil rights movement...
...believe the article by Nikki B. Usher ’03, “Watching, not Making, History” (Opinion, April 24) gives the wrong impression of those protesting outside of Massachusetts Hall. Usher states she is conservative, yet is conflicted about not participating in PSLM??s protest on grounds that she may miss out on making history...
Those who do not feel well enough informed about the issue should visit the provost’s website and PSLM??s tables, get as much information as they can, ask questions and make a decision. But for those who are informed and don’t support a living wage for whatever reason—don’t come just for the memories...
...won’t deny my desire for posterity. But I want to fight for a cause worthy of historical memory. I can’t convince myself that PSLM??s demands are revolutionary. If they are, I will have been on the outside, without thermodynamics to excuse my participation—just my arrogance. For the moment, I will deny my desire to throw away my conservative bias and run into Mass Hall to support the living wage campaign—for the sake of being a part of history. But as the protest continues...