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In the wake of this settlement, the future of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) seems up in the air. With workers having won wage increases higher than the living wage standard called for during the sit-in, some question why the group even continues to exist.
As seen in various actions since his installation, University President Lawrence H. Summers has come to Harvard with very undemocratic beliefs and is pushing hard to diminish the power students and other members of the community have to impact policy. He announced his sit-in policy without any input from...
The ensuing discussion has been unfortunately quieter than it might have been. Presumably, so few undergraduates even recognize the reference to the forgotten and beleaguered document, created in the wake of the 1969 University Hall takeover, that there just hasn’t been much reaction. There was, of course...
...ought to be. In the aftermath of the spring sit-in, with the statement gathering dust instead of being actively considered, it was anyone’s guess how participants in another such occupation would be penalized under a new president. College, law school and Kennedy School of Government students received different punishments this spring, with the latter set of students getting off the hook entirely. By re-engaging with the statement and the concepts behind it, Summers has laid his hand on the table: all future sit-ins are fair game for the implementation of this policy. If anyone...
“I received a letter from my senior tutor alleging that I was seen in Mass Hall during the Thursday teach-in,” Ari Z. Weisbard ’02 wrote in an e-mail. “Although I was in the sit-in in...