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Hear this call to arms, fellow Harvard students, and take up the fight against discrimination. Because there is no possible way that any all-male group with any kind of power and appeal can be anything but sexist and, well, just generally awful. Avoid their concerts and boycott their parties...
From a Harvard standpoint, Wally’s sole flaw is its location way over in South Boston. It’s near the Symphony T stop, though, and the music gets cooking as early as 9 p.m., so the subway-bound can still get plenty of grooving in before...
SLAM evolved from the now-defunct Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), an activist organization that staged a three week sit-in of Mass. Hall in 2002 and demanded wage increases and benefits for the University’s service employees. The event drew national headlines and prompted the University to...
On a historical level, we can also note some surprising parallels. In late February, students staged a sit-in in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (OUA) to protest Yale’s financial aid policies. The French had their Bastille; Yale had the OUA. A correlation between the storming of...
Admittedly, this technique of protesting is new and radical for Harvard, particularly Harvard post-Living Wage sit-in. But the concept of a political endeavor that has a direct effect and also uses creativity should be praised, honed to perfection, and used again.