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McKean says that during the sit-in, there were at least 10 people working on public relations, doggedly calling reporters for hours each day, and writing and sending out press releases. He adds that they even persuaded a Times reporter to enter the building with them, though it wasn’t until one week into the sit-in that the Times printed any coverage...
...idea of a sit-in is attention,” says Madeleine Elfenbein ’04, who was involved in the sit-in. “It’s also a certain tactic to exercise human power against the administration’s institutional power...
Organizers were frustrated at the relative lack of media response in the first week of the sit-in. That changed with the visits of high-profile labor leaders and politicians, and a sense on the part of journalists that the occupation was going to last. Soon, the story was everywhere, and Times opinion columnist Bob Herbert dedicated two whole columns to the topic. “Looking at it now, it looks like wall-to-wall media,” says McKean. “But we worked for every inch...
...Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, who chaired the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policy convened following the Mass. Hall sit-in, said the University has made substantial progress in relations with custodians, dining hall workers and security workers—groups his committee covered...
...fact that the administration would respond to the student sit-in the way it did reflects the understanding that [Harvard] is a community,” Meyerson said...