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Many look to the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), whose rallies during last year’s sit-in drew thousands, as the ideal.
Orlando Segura ’05 says he had looked forward to joining PSLM after hearing about the sit-in in the news last year, but quit after feeling he was not being incorporated into the group.
Wilson Sinclaire, a Harvard custodian who was part of the negotiating committee and active during last year’s Mass. Hall sit-in, said he has also had trouble with management since the new contract was negotiated.
“We’re going to build a hut attached to the side of Adams, like the Living Wage Campaign, and stage a sit-in at Adams. Maybe we’ll kidnap a blocking group in the house,” said Marks.
But instead of widening the power of members of the Harvard community to decide university policies, the new administration is heading backwards. The president and deans’ recent decision to punish sit-in participants more severely not only reflects a sad lack of understanding of the undemocratic university governance...