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Fortunately, however, the negotiations were well attended by members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM). Various PSLM activists present at the negotiations have written their recollections of the dialogue, and the following transcript—revealed here for the first time—has been assembled from their accounts. It documents exchanges between negotiators in two pivotal meetings. The first, which ended in an impasse, took place on Feb. 20. The second, at which agreement was reached after members of PSLM and SEIU engaged in a courageous act of civil disobedience, took place...
Last Friday, College administrators sent an e-mail to several members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) saying they had been observed in Mass. Hall during a “teach-in” on Feb. 21 and notifying them that they could be suspended if they repeated the action. While the e-mail itself was a clumsy and counterproductive attempt to intimidate PSLM, it was even more startling that the e-mail was sent to some students who weren’t actually in Mass. Hall...
...clearly an attempt at intimidation—only a day before, the administration had announced its “interpretation” that students occupying buildings would be subject to suspension. Intimidating e-mails to students are hardly the best way to begin a new, more cordial relationship with PSLM now that the janitors’ contract has finally been settled...
...preemptively intimidate students. It is hardly necessary to add that the administration should not make the mistake of sending inaccurate e-mails to students who weren’t in Mass. Hall on Feb. 21 if it hopes to maintain its credibility. By sending warning messages to members of PSLM who had no part in the most recent teach-in rather than just to students who actually participated, the administration cannot hope to avoid the implication that its action was intended as a threat, not as merely an explanation of consequences for a past action...
Well, Larry Summers, this will probably be our last communiqué for a while, though I must say it’s been an awfully one-sided dialogue. Soon spring training will be over, spring fever will hit campus, and the PSLM crazies will be out demanding $20 an hour and free toppings...