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...arms, fellow Harvard students, and take up the fight against discrimination. Because there is no possible way that any all-male group with any kind of power and appeal can be anything but sexist and, well, just generally awful. Avoid their concerts and boycott their parties. Stage a sit-in at University Hall calling for their expulsion from the Harvard community. So long as we let ourselves think that these organizations have enough redeeming qualities to justify their existence, we can count ourselves responsible for social power on this campus remaining firmly in the hands of men. And that?...
...Boston. It’s near the Symphony T stop, though, and the music gets cooking as early as 9 p.m., so the subway-bound can still get plenty of grooving in before their coach turns into a pumpkin. Sunday afternoons have an added bonus: a 4-7 p.m. sit-in jam session, open to anyone...
SLAM evolved from the now-defunct Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), an activist organization that staged a three week sit-in of Mass. Hall in 2002 and demanded wage increases and benefits for the University’s service employees. The event drew national headlines and prompted the University to review its labor policies...
...historical level, we can also note some surprising parallels. In late February, students staged a sit-in in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (OUA) to protest Yale’s financial aid policies. The French had their Bastille; Yale had the OUA. A correlation between the storming of an unjust prison and a sit-in for fairer financial aid policies: coincidence? I think not. Yale rose up again in April, when graduate students set up a strike for teaching unions. This is like the March on Versailles for bread—a loud demand for better treatment...
Admittedly, this technique of protesting is new and radical for Harvard, particularly Harvard post-Living Wage sit-in. But the concept of a political endeavor that has a direct effect and also uses creativity should be praised, honed to perfection, and used again...