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One of the biggest news stories to come out of the 1998-1999 school year was the increase in student activism on a number of issues. The Living Wage Campaign agitated for higher wages for Harvard employees, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence condemned the College’s policies concerning...
They ended the sit-in last spring to the promise of a new committee charged to examine the University’s labor policies. The Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), headed Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, met by confidential sessions through the fall, gathering data and...
The recommendations asked the University to reopen union negotiations to boost wages for the school’s 1,000 lowest-paid service employees to at least $10.83 to $11.30 per hour—a number that exceeded the $10.25 rallying cry of last spring’s sit-in...
Apparently, in order to be a bleeding-heart liberal, you have to toss aside one other old-fashioned value: thought. As the sit-in approached its third week, somewhere in Harvard Yard a first-year student handed me a neon-orange leaflet emblazoned with “Living Wage Now...
Despite early support for the sit-in, students seemed to lose their enthusiasm for the living wage the longer the sit-in dragged on. Student opponents began to speak out against the Living Wage Campaign, and they did so with as much organization and rhetorical skill as the living wagers...