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It took more than three hours of impassioned rhetoric, sideways watch-glancing and frustrated castings aside of Roberts' Rules of order for the cabinet of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) to decide in the early days of the Mass. Hall living wage sit-in to support the Progressive Student...
And Cox thinks that the recent large-scale advocacy at Harvard--the Mass. Hall sit-in and living wage rallies--highlighted the importance of all aspects of service for PBHA volunteers, not just direct activism.
"I think it [the sit-in] calls attention for the greater need for PBHA programs. Even as PSLM, one PBHA program, is tackling the problem on one front, there's still a great need for PBHA to keep on doing what it's doing."
The spring 2001 semester will undoubtedly be remembered for the Living Wage Campaign's occupation of Massachusetts Hall and the selection of Lawrence H. Summers as the 27th president of Harvard University. In particular, the Progressive Student Labor Movement's (PSLM) sit-in drew national attention to campus, as daily...
"I thought the BSA behaved very well," says Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth '71, who attended the Feb. 13 sit-in. "They were clearly upset."