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...While PSLM protesters were visible on campus all weekend, their presence was felt most closely, according to many pre-frosh, during the advising panel on Saturday when protestors lined up with tape over their mouths in the back of the lecture hall...
...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) claims the living wage movement is an effort to restore dignity to Harvard’s workers (News, “PSLM Occupies Mass. Hall,” April 18). Speaking from a modest, working-class background, I find their campaign inexcusably condescending. I envision these living wage protesters generously descending from their ivory towers to fight a battle for the common, uneducated worker. This benevolent gesture is patronizing and demoralizing, and if I were among the ranks of Harvard’s workers, I would feel humiliated...
...PSLM really wants to ennoble Harvard’s workers, how about giving them some agency in fighting injustice? PSLM makes one crucial point: the fact that Harvard outsources to non-union labor is not only exploitative but also cowardly. Make unionization the primary focus of the campaign, and forget about trying to impose an arbitrary wage standard...
...PSLM Must Go” (Editorial, April 20), the staff’s proposed alternative to PSLM’s ongoing occupation of Mass. Hall is for the University to “establish and maintain a policy of open dialogue.” You fail to note that dialogue with the administration has been actively pursued by the Living Wage campaign since its inception. Time and time again it has failed...
...administration will enact change only when it is publicly—and repeatedly—humiliated. Bad press is anathema to its image. The Crimson has regretfully chosen to focus on PSLM protesters and to mischaracterize them as a “circus-like” group of noisy, disruptive students...