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...less a hotbed of political activism than a springboard for comfortable cosmopolitan jobs. Yet throughout Harvard history there have been students who have defied this stereotype, challenging the existing order in striking and dramatic ways. The takeover of Mass. Hall last year by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) in its campaign for a “living wage” is just the latest chapter in this turbulent history...
...while the PSLM transformed itself from a small group of fringe activists into Time magazine celebrities, there’s more to the story than drum beats and chanting crowds. Getting the Harvard community enthusiastic for and committed to an agenda of reform has proven to be an elusive goal. After all the banners and the songs, where the PSLM stands now remains in doubt...
...takeover of University Hall was crushed by a Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) squad that dragged Students for a Democratic Society protesters (SDS) out of the building against their will. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) 21-day takeover of Massachusettts Hall last year was crushed by promises of a Katz report. Administrators and police officers took a hands-off approach to the 2001 protest, confident that rallying cries for a living wage would be silenced by a bureaucratic committee and a stack of paperwork. But more significant than the administration’s changed tactics towards protest...
McKean said that PSLM research of business practices of Corporation members is not a new tactic, but a continuation of past activities, noting last year’s trip to the New York City offices of Corporation members. PSLM has also demonstrated against the secretive nature of this spring’s presidential search...
Madeleine was disappointed with the results of the article. “It was substanceless. I felt like the issue really didn’t get explained well. It was not at all clear what PSLM had been doing,” she laments. Moreover, the article is factually incorrect. YM’s Assistant to the Executive Editor Molly Rosen writes, “Madeleine and the group camped out inside until finally Harvard consented to raise some of the workers’ wages.” In truth, Harvard agreed only to establish a committee to evaluate...