Word: sit-in
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...assume it was sent to me because I was in the sit-in,” Richmond continued. “Had I not been sick I might have been [at the teach-in], but that’s immaterial...
Elfenbein said that despite PSLM’s call for a wage floor of $10.25—the living wage established by the City of Cambridge—throughout last spring’s Mass. Hall sit-in, during actual negotiations these past weeks students realized “the numbers we’d been calling for were not sufficient.” Since the sit-in, the living wage increased to $10.68 with inflation...
...Summers intends to enforce the University’s rules. In contrast to his predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, Summers says that students disrupting University employees will ordinarily face suspension. The new policy clarifies the University’s stance toward protests like last spring’s living wage sit-in and makes clear the potential risks to students taking such actions...
...threat of punishment makes the protest itself more powerful. The persuasive impact of a sit-in comes exactly from the fact that students are willing to face punishment in order to make their point. Were the University policy to be consistently light, future takeovers could rightly be viewed as little more than media stunts entailing no substantial risk of punishment to the protestors...
...process here is outrageous,” said Benjamin L. McKean ’02, who participated in the sit-in last spring. “It’s outrageous that they wouldn’t involve the whole community in some sort of consultative process...