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...bill cited the administration's "refusal to meet seriously with the PSLM...
...we’re out trying to help University workers, we really need to save those poor lobsters that Harvard murders by the thousand for the Clambake every year. So once the sit-in is over, we’ll change the “L” in PSLM to “Lobster” and my job as publicist will remain intact. Only this time, instead of tents and sit-ins, we’ll just let 6,000 lobsters free in Harvard Yard. Of course, since lobsters can’t survive without water...
...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and the University seem to have reached an impasse. The PSLM has attracted growing numbers of protesters to its cause: hundreds of dining hall workers helped Wednesday night’s rally spill over into Massachusetts Avenue, and yesterday’s noon rally was one of the largest Harvard has seen in decades. Yet the ongoing protests are taking their toll—on the protesters inside, on the residents of Mass. Hall and on the overworked Harvard University Police Department, which is tiring of its 16-hour shifts...
...part, Harvard has shown no inclination to budge. The administration has refused to categorize its talks with PSLM members as “negotiations,” and the office of the president sent out a statement to all undergraduates yesterday outlining its refusal to negotiate with what it rightly views as a coercive protest. Harvard has been here for 365 years, and we believe the administration when it says it can out-wait the protesters. The situation seems untenable: the University won’t negotiate until the protesters have left the building, and PSLM won?...
...have argued that PSLM should go. The most effective aspect of their protest has been the tremendous outside support it has generated—the non-coercive and far more visible endorsements and rallies. Withdrawing from Mass. Hall while maintaining the daily pressure would deny Harvard its central argument and increase the likelihood of fruitful negotiations. We have also urged Harvard to open negotiations after the PSLM has left, and to implement a living wage in the legitimate interests of its workers. But neither outcome seems likely to happen...