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Aside from the Afro-American Studies Department (which was reluctantly established as the result of a University Hall student sit-in and was largely under-funded until the arrival of Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. in 1991), Harvard has never fully supported ethnic studies...
Contract negotiations between the janitors’ union, the Service Employees International Union Local 254, and the Harvard administration began on Jan. 22, eight months ahead of schedule, due to the agreement that resulted from last spring’s student sit-in in Mass. Hall. During the last three...
Losier: I think it’s also an issue of power as well. If you look at what happened with the sit-in and the way the contentious debate between the sides took place, it was always about who had the power. Who had the power to negotiate? Who...
Weisbard, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) who was involved in last spring’s sit-in, subsequently e-mailed Throptalk a sarcastic message. In the e-mail, he mocked Mucha and the council’s current commitments to student services.
Although the film chronicles the actual sit-in with great detail, it is interspersed with testimony from workers, statistics about wages and stodgy images of Harvard from the past. It follows the PSLM protesters as they rush into Mass. Hall and are confronted by grim, heartless officials. The omnipresent camera...