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Nearly 50 from Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) begin a sit-in at Massachusetts Hall students to protest Harvard’s lack of a living wage. They want the university to adopt a living wage of $10.25. The protesters declare that they will remain there indefinitely until the university will agree to their demands. The sit-in follows a two-year effort by PSLM to implement a living wage...
After six days, outside support for the sit-in grows with growing support from the legislators and labor groups. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), meets with President Rudenstine in Washington to discuss implementing a living wage...
University administers begin discussions with protesters inside Mass. Hall to try to end the sit-in. Although Lowell House Co-Master Dorothy A. Austin and J. Bryan Hehir, the acting dean of the Harvard Divinity School, discusses possible resolution to the sit-in, the University emphasized that this meeting are not a “negotiations...
After a security guard is assaulted at night and amid increased concerns with the number of non-Harvard people in the Yard because of the sit-in and tent city, University officials have closed the Yard at night. Between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m., only people with Harvard ID’s can enter the Yard...
After a 21 day occupation of Mass. Hall, the sit-in ended with Harvard agreeing to form a new committee to study labor issues at Harvard. This committee will include two undergraduates selected by the Undergraduate Council...