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...decision to move forward with a sit-in threatened to tear the PSLM apart internally. DiMaggio and Elfenbein both confess that there was soul-searching within the group from the first time the tactic was suggested in January of 2001. “We were asking, ‘will it end our campaign forever?’” Elfenbein says. While the sit-in undoubtedly raised the profile of the living wage issue on campus—Epps admits that he had “barely heard” of the struggle prior to the takeover?...
...cause they believe in, regardless of background,” she says. The majority of members feel the best way to deal with the issue is to constantly strive to integrate workers into their organization and involve them directly in protest. Bartley asserts that “during the sit-in, we worried about these issues least. It took time, but now they are integrated into the structure. Thousands came out to protest as a central part of the campaign...
DiMaggio points out that during the sit-in, dining hall workers, janitors and security guards took part in a protest inside the Holyoke Center, personally organized marches and spoke at PSLM rallies. It seems that the PSLM now views its relationship with these sometimes uneasy bedfellows as, in Bartley’s words, “less patronizing, and more of a partnership...
Students are the best judges of their own opinions, and six months after tired and grungy protesters emerged from Mass Hall, their views are divided as ever. About half of the 25 students contacted in an informal survey believe the sit-in was justifed; another half disagree or don’t know. This shows little change from a poll taken in The Crimson just days after the PSLM occupied the administrative building—when a full half of the student body did not feel the PSLM’s actions were justified, a third believed they were...
Students do agree that the sit-in them more aware of the living wage issue. That the PSLM brought the plight of the modern industrial worker to the forefront of debate must be considered some kind of success. Caroline E. Adler ’04 encapsulates the general feeling of most students when she remarks that the sit-in “got me thinking—I didn’t realize there was such a problem and realized there needs to be a solution...