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Battle In Brattle—The Ongoing “PSSPLM” Sit...
...Harvard students look to rational, quantifiable reasoning when pressed to evaluate political issues. It took the catastrophic idiocy of the living wage sit-in to jolt Harvard students into looking with evaluative eyes at their political surroundings. For this, if nothing else, I am indebted to the campaign. If it weren’t for the over-the-top chanting, postering, and that silly first-year who hadn’t the slightest clue what he was doing, I may still have been living the Harvard lie of blind liberalism without prudent thought. I had to be convinced that...
...substantial pay hikes for Harvard employees, specifically suggested the University boost wages for the school’s 1,000 lowest-paid service employees to at least $10.83 to $11.30 per hour. These figures exceed the $10.25 rallying cry of last spring’s Progressive Student Labor Movement sit-in and the then-$10.68 living wage established by the city of Cambridge...
...months after students occupied Mass. Hall, administrators release a statement clarifying the University’s sit-in policy. They call for stricter and more consistent punishment for participants in any future takeover of University buildings and also recommend that students who cause a disruption while occupying buildings be suspended...
Last year, Taylor was central to negotiations that ended a Mass. Hall sit-in conducted by students protesting the University’s labor policies...