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...wake of this settlement, the future of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) seems up in the air. With workers having won wage increases higher than the living wage standard called for during the sit-in, some question why the group even continues to exist...
...seen in various actions since his installation, University President Lawrence H. Summers has come to Harvard with very undemocratic beliefs and is pushing hard to diminish the power students and other members of the community have to impact policy. He announced his sit-in policy without any input from students, just one step in an attempt to crack down on and discourage protest at Harvard. The advisory board on the selection of the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences does not include students. Summers has metaphorically referred to the relationship between students and Harvard as similar...
...wake of the 1969 University Hall takeover, that there just hasn’t been much reaction. There was, of course, the predictably hyperbolic comment of one member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), the publicity-savvy activist group that masterminded last spring’s sit-in at Mass. Hall. And of course, some people’s knee-jerk reaction is to say that the dictum from Summers and his deans’ council is a poor one: oh, but now it’s going to be harder for students to protest. That?...
Although his “interpretation” of the policy as it applies to sit-ins is redundant, there are some benefits to raising the issue again anyway, however obvious it ought to be. In the aftermath of the spring sit-in, with the statement gathering dust instead of being actively considered, it was anyone’s guess how participants in another such occupation would be penalized under a new president. College, law school and Kennedy School of Government students received different punishments this spring, with the latter set of students getting off the hook entirely...
...received a letter from my senior tutor alleging that I was seen in Mass Hall during the Thursday teach-in,” Ari Z. Weisbard ’02 wrote in an e-mail. “Although I was in the sit-in in Mass Hall last spring, I have not been inside the building since...