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Madeleine, age 18, received a phone call from YM this summer requesting an interview and photo shoot for being the youngest female participant in the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) occupation of Mass Hall from April 18 to May 1. “My first reaction was that it would be really great if news of the sit-in got into YM. It might reach a demographic that hadn’t heard about what had gone on here. So I agreed,” she says...
Madeleine reasoned that since PSLM had worked hard with public relations and to cultivate their image, it would be foolish to turn down the opportunity. However, “there’s a lot of content in YM that is objectionable to me. It’s got a schizophrenic political bent. On one page they’re exalting political protest and on the next page advocating conformity. I would hate to think that my being included in there is contributing to a culture of conformity and blind trend-following,” she explains...
...point to the fact that Hoxby has one herself. That is something of a strange assertion, given that she has never associated herself with any of the counter movements, while at least two of the students on the committee were members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM). Even so, if Hoxby is the opposing voice on the Katz Committee, she stands as only one against many...
...head and demanding that he accept $7.50 an hour. To suggest that somehow Harvard has an obligation to pay workers more is to say that Epps or McCarthy or anyone else has an obligation to throw money in a homeless man’s cup. The PSLM is merely the mugger’s gun to the figurative heads of Harvard administrators. That members of our esteemed Faculty should support coercive seizure of property is disappointing, at best, but sickening at its very heart...
...startled by the rhetoric employed by Epps, Jehn and McCarthy in their Op-Ed piece. What started as a principled attack on Hoxby’s resignation turned into ad hominem invective and a meandering rant against conservatives and living wage opponents. The writers passionately defend the PSLM sit-in as “in line with the rich and long tradition of principled, non-violent protest,” despite the fact that Hoxby never publicly said or implied anything to the contrary. They theorize that Hoxby’s resignation was merely a strategem against the living wage...