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“I assume it was sent to me because I was in the sit-in,” Richmond continued. “Had I not been sick I might have been [at the teach-in], but that’s immaterial.”
Elfenbein said that despite PSLM’s call for a wage floor of $10.25—the living wage established by the City of Cambridge—throughout last spring’s Mass. Hall sit-in, during actual negotiations these past weeks students realized ?...
Yesterday’s statement from the Harvard administration calling for stricter and more consistent punishment of students who illegally occupy University buildings sends a clear signal that President Lawrence H. Summers intends to enforce the University’s rules. In contrast to his predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, Summers...
The threat of punishment makes the protest itself more powerful. The persuasive impact of a sit-in comes exactly from the fact that students are willing to face punishment in order to make their point. Were the University policy to be consistently light, future takeovers could rightly be viewed as...
“The process here is outrageous,” said Benjamin L. McKean ’02, who participated in the sit-in last spring. “It’s outrageous that they wouldn’t involve the whole community in some sort of consultative...