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...PSLM must remember that the ultimate audience for these statements is not public opinion, but the Harvard administration. We are glad that PSLM has made efforts to make its protests less disruptive to the student body, especially with regard to reducing nighttime noise in consideration of the residents of Mass. Hall. But the protesters have still disrupted administrators’ access to their offices, and we are very concerned by reports of increasing harassment of secretaries and other support staff working within the building—Harvard workers in whose interest PSLM has campaigned. Such harassment is more likely...
...hope that the shows of support by those outside PSLM will help the administration separate the cause of the living wage from the tactics chosen in this protest. The University is no doubt concerned with setting an uncomfortable precedent by giving in to coercive measures. However, we sincerely hope that non-disruptive efforts and increased public awareness will eventually sway the administration to do right by its workers...
...ongoing sit-in in Mass. Hall gained considerable momentum this past weekend, as members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) attracted prominent politicians, Harvard House Masters and increasing numbers of undergraduates to their ongoing protest for a living wage...
Bolstered by a steadily growing "tent city" of supporters and impromptu messages from U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, PSLM members said they plan to occupy the building indefinitely-until the administration grants Harvard employees a living wage of at least $10.25 per hour...
...From inside the building, a PSLM member yelled out the window-asking Kennedy whether he would call University President Neil L. Rudenstine to ask for a living wage...